From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Mickler Subject: Fw: Cannot register at bugzilla (bugreport added) [ ath5k bugreport ] Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:15:24 +0200 Message-ID: <20090925191524.7b2b228c@schatten> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jiri Slaby , ath5k-devel-xDcbHBWguxEUs3QNXV6qNA@public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, "John W. Linville" , netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Hans-J. Ullrich" Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: ath5k-devel-bounces-xDcbHBWguxEUs3QNXV6qNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: ath5k-devel-bounces-xDcbHBWguxEUs3QNXV6qNA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org cc's added could you also: - tell the version of the broken kernel, - the last working kernel version, - test if it works with current kernel-snapshot from http://www.kernel.org/ (if you are unshure about what to include in future bugreports, i feel like this is a good guide for reporting bug's: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lkml/reporting-bugs.html ) Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 15:07:25 +0200 From: "Hans-J. Ullrich" To: linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel Subject: Cannot register at bugzilla (bugreport added) Hi dear webmasters, sorry to write to you, but I was not able to register at bugzilla.kernel.org. I tried two e-mail adresses: hans.ullrich-LYJP0WDo+eM@public.gmane.org and kontakt-beUMQNMGC1D5t8C4jrjcsg@public.gmane.org Ther reasonn why I wanted to register is a bugreport for the kernel module "ath5k". It would be nice, if you can register me, and maybe send this bugreport to the nice maintainer of ath5k. The bugreport is as follows: ---------------------------------- snip -------------------------------------- kernel-module "ath5k" gets no IP when using dhcp Description: It is not possible, to get an IP-address by using dhcp with the kernel-module ath5k. It is possible, to give a fixed IP to that module. It seems, the kernel-module is not recognizing dhcp-offers (I remember, this problem appeared in some versions of madwifi-driver, too), although sometimes it seems to work, mostly, when the device already got an IP. If you ask me, I would define this behaviour as "very, very unstable". This is the output in console: # iwconfig wlan0 key off essid UIT-mobile mode managed # dhclient -s 192.168.1.5 wlan0 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.2p1 Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:1d:d9:4c:88:10 Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:1d:d9:4c:88:10 Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 192.168.1.5 port 67 interval 4 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 192.168.1.5 port 67 interval 10 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 192.168.1.5 port 67 interval 14 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 192.168.1.5 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 192.168.1.5 port 67 interval 10 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 192.168.1.5 port 67 interval 10 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 192.168.1.5 port 67 interval 1 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. # ------------------------ snap ------------------------------- I hope this helps a little bit. I will be pleased, if I can help you more, so feel free to ask for more information. There are already other reports of this problem in discussion forums. It seems, the old madwifi-driver works better with dhcp - so people say. Thank you for your help! And thank you for your patience because of this unusual bugreporting, I apologize for that! Best regards Hans-J. Ullrich