Re: Recent driver in linux kernel 2.6.25-rc2

[Tomas Winkler]

2008/3/11 Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 05:35:32PM -0700, Chatre, Reinette wrote:
>  > sorry for the delay - please do submit a bug at bughost.org to enable us
>  > to track this problem.
>  >
>  > The error you get is strange - the reason why the channel could not be
>  > set was because the device is not considered to be ready. Yet, from your
>  > debug log all the required steps appear to have completed successfully.
>  > Could you please add a print to the function
>  > iwl4965-base.c:iwl4965_is_ready to see what the value of priv->status
>  > is?
>
>  I don't have this problem in 2.6.25-rc3 and rc4. However, it seems that the
>  card does not associate with AP if I set iwcofnig wlan0 essid any. Is this
>  a bug or a feature? The AP does not use key and is visible.
>
It looks more like mac80211 bug but frankly I would prefer if this
'any' feature will be not supported.
It has security implications. The decision about to which AP to
associate should be left solely to user space.

Tomas
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