linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.29-rc8: Reported regressions from 2.6.28

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Message-Id: <1237637375.5100.178.camel@johannes.local>
Date:	Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:09:35 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc8: Reported regressions from 2.6.28

On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 00:14 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:

> I went back to 2.6.28 and found out that I could associate as follows
> (but this would not work in 2.6.29-rc8 ... should work with the
> patch).
> 
> modprobe -r iwlagn
> modprobe iwlagn
> iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
> ifconfig wlan0 up
> iwconfig wlan0 essid "xxx"
> iwconfig wlan0 key restricted xxx
> iwconfig wlan0 ap auto channel auto
> iwlist wlan0 scan >/dev/null

Thing is that this works perfectly fine for me, on very similar
hardware.

OTOH, maybe it got _fixed_ again. Would you check wireless-testing
(http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation#wireless-testing.git) for me? Or compat-wireless (http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download)

johannes

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