From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bob Copeland Subject: Re: Fw: Cannot register at bugzilla (bugreport added) [ ath5k bugreport ] Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:46:20 -0400 Message-ID: <20090926124620.GA5188@hash.localnet> References: <20090925191524.7b2b228c@schatten> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: ath5k-devel-xDcbHBWguxEUs3QNXV6qNA@public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Nick Kossifidis , Jiri Slaby , "John W. Linville" To: hans.ullrich-LYJP0WDo+eM@public.gmane.org Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090925191524.7b2b228c@schatten> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 07:15:24PM +0200, Florian Mickler wrote: > 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/ Yes, please. > 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 works here - I would guess the packets are getting dropped. Do you have anything in 'dmesg' while trying to associate? > There are already other reports of this problem in discussion forums. > It seems, the old madwifi-driver works better with dhcp - so people say. Can you point to such a discussion? It's best to discuss on ath5k-devel or linux-wireless ML so we will know about it. -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html