Re: Required sequence to set wireless parameters? (was: 2.6.29-rc8: Reported regressions from 2.6.28)

Jeff Chua
2009-03-19T16:45:35Z

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:24 PM, John W. Linville
<linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 04:02:56PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
>> John W. Linville wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:38:54AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> >> On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 12:49 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
>> >> > # this needs patch to work ...
>> >> > iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
>> >> > ifconfig wlan0 up
>> >> > iwconfig wlan0 essid xxx
>> >> > iwconfig wlan0 key restricted xxx
>> >> > iwconfig wlan0 ap auto channel auto
>> >>
>> >> If you swap the key and essid lines, it will probably always work.

I just discovered that "iwconfig wlan0 ap auto channel auto" is the
one causing the problem on 2.6.29-rc8. Remove the line and it'll
associate to the AP. Just tried on two different APs a few times, and
it seems to behave that way. If I execute the "auto" command, it'll
fail to associate, but works fine with the patch.

Jeff.