From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomasz Torcz Subject: Re: Recent wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:46:09 +0100 Message-ID: <20070305154609.GA3626@irc.pl> References: <20070304220857.GH23311@waste.org> <20070305011625.GA7681@kroah.com> <20070305064229.GJ23311@waste.org> <20070305070248.GA30699@kroah.com> <20070305071325.GK23311@waste.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: greg@kroah.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, yi.zhu@intel.com, jketreno@linux.intel.com, akpm@osdl.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from nsm.pl ([195.34.211.229]:50513 "EHLO nsm.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933563AbXCEP5K (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:57:10 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nsm.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2208DD794F for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:46:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from nsm.pl ([195.34.211.229]) by localhost (nsm.pl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id phKsnzI-bwfc for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:46:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from matthew.ogrody.nsm.pl (unknown [10.10.174.98]) by nsm.pl (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FF1FD7951 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:46:07 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070305071325.GK23311@waste.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:13:26AM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:02:48PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:42:29AM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:16:25PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 04:08:57PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > > > Recent kernels are having troubles with wireless for me. Two seemingly > > > > > related problems: > > > > > > > > > > a) NetworkManager seems oblivious to the existence of my IPW2200 > > > > > b) Manual iwconfig waits for 60s and then reports: > > > > > > > > > > Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : > > > > > SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported. > > > > > > > > Do you have CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED enabled? If not, please do as that > > > > will keep you from having to change any userspace code. > > > > > > No, it's disabled. Will test once I'm done tracking down the iwconfig > > > problem. From the help text for SYSFS_DEPRECATED: > > > > > > If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or > > > later, it should be safe to say N here. > > > > > > If we need an as-yet-unreleased HAL without it, I would say the above > > > should be changed to 2008 or so. If Debian actually cuts a release in > > > the next few months, you might make that 2010. > > > > Well, just because Debian has such a slow release cycle, should the rest > > of the world be forced to follow suit? :) > > > > When I originally wrote that, I thought Debian would have already done > > their release, my mistake... > > That's not the point. The point is that Debian/unstable as of _this > morning_ doesn't work. For reference, I'm running both the latest > releases of both hal (0.5.8.1-6.1) and network-manager (0.6.4-6). And > there are people telling me I need a copy of HAL out of git that > hasn't even been released for Debian to package. Debian isn't the > problem here. hal 0.5.9-rc1 (released, not from git) should work. It will be problably released soon and picked by sane distributions. Debian is very irritating corner case. -- Tomasz Torcz Only gods can safely risk perfection, zdzichu@irc.-nie.spam-.pl it's a dangerous thing for a man. -- Alia