linux-kernel - Re: need help figuring out what makes my wireless"iwconfig" not respond

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Message-ID: <4A49980E.2010405@lwfinger.net>
Date:	Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:43:58 -0500
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	"Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@...il.com>
CC:	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: need help figuring out what makes my wireless"iwconfig" not respond

Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> from 2.6.31-rc1 to present there was a couple of commits for
> wireless. prior to that the wireless on my machine(imac)
> was o.k.,
> Now the wireless does work(streams music,t.v. etc..)
> but when I look at iwconfig there's nothing no info.
> (I use wicd as my connection manager, and in the bottom corner
> of the screen the transmit power is down to almost nothing,
> causing wicd to constantly reconnect)
> 
> out of a random guess what commit might have caused this, so I can at least
> fix this over here(that is until the manufacturer comes out with a new
> version). I can go in and individually revert all of the wireless, but
> before that
> I want a quick lead.
> 
> any ideas?
> 

If you have a git tree, use the "git bisect" commands to find the bad
commit.
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