Re: [REGRESSION] [IWL3945] Broadcast is broken?

From: Maxim Levitsky
Date: Mon Jun 14 2010 - 13:55:57 EST


On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 19:24 +0200, Maciej Rutecki wrote:
> Hardware:
> 08:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan]
> Network Connection (rev 02)
>
> Last known good kernel: 2.6.34
>
> Failing kernels: since 2.6.35-rc1 to 2.6.35-rc3
>
> Symptoms:
> During connect do wireless network authentication seems be OK, but I cannot
> get IP from dhcp serwer. I do:
> echo 0x43fff > /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/debug_level
>
> Syslog is here:
> http://unixy.pl/maciek/download/kernel/2.6.35-rc3/gumis/syslog-before.txt
>
> From syslog I guess the problem is that it doesn't receive broadcast frames
> (but I'm not sure), so I try:
> sudo ifconfig wlan0 promisc
>
> Syslog:
> http://unixy.pl/maciek/download/kernel/2.6.35-rc3/gumis/syslog-after.txt
>
> And then I can get IP address.
>
> Any advice?

Very likely commit 3474ad635db371b0d8d0ee40086f15d223d5b6a4,
because I have same problem.

Try to revert it.

Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky


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