From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Chris Siebenmann <cks@cs.toronto.edu>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Chris Siebenmann <cks-rhbugzilla@cs.toronto.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] airo: fix setting zero length WEP key
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:30:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1265326249.4290.39.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1265325971.4290.38.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 15:26 -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 18:03 -0500, Chris Siebenmann wrote:
> > | > I'm not sure what the machine's exact configuration is because
> > | > I inherited it (the usual long cycle of passing older and older
> > | > hardware around at work), but I believe it must; I certainly don't
> > | > have anything plugged into any external slots or sockets.
> > |
> > | And just to confirm, what are the exact symptoms that you have with
> > | "broken" kernels? Just that connections can't be made, the card can't
> > | find access points, etc? or?
> >
> > In the GUI, no wireless networks show up/are listed in the usual
> > dropdown menu; this means that I can't go as far as even trying to
> > connect to anything. From the command line, 'iwlist wifi0 scanning'
> > lists nothing.
>
> Wait, wifi0? You need to be using 'eth0' or 'eth1', whichever eth
> device that 'iwconfig' reports. wifi0 is a historical airo anomaly
> that's only used for packet capture and sniffing of the 802.11 frames.
> It should not be used for anything other than Wireshark basically.
>
> Do you get the same behavior if you use the normal ethX interface of the
> airo device?
Note that just because wifi0 may return scan results doesn't mean it
should be used with iwconfig...
But also, you're doing the iwlist scan as root, correct?
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-04 23:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-02 14:34 [PATCH] airo: fix setting zero length WEP key Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-02-02 18:32 ` Chris Siebenmann
2010-02-03 20:43 ` Dan Williams
2010-02-03 21:31 ` Chris Siebenmann
2010-02-04 21:44 ` Dan Williams
2010-02-04 22:10 ` Chris Siebenmann
2010-02-04 22:18 ` Dan Williams
2010-02-04 22:26 ` Chris Siebenmann
2010-02-04 22:39 ` Dan Williams
2010-02-04 22:42 ` Chris Siebenmann
2010-02-04 23:00 ` Dan Williams
2010-02-04 23:03 ` Chris Siebenmann
2010-02-04 23:26 ` Dan Williams
2010-02-04 23:30 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2010-02-04 23:36 ` Chris Siebenmann
2010-02-05 6:57 ` Dan Williams
2010-02-04 12:04 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-02-04 12:07 ` [PATCH v2] " Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-02-04 16:41 ` Chris Siebenmann
2010-02-04 23:56 ` Dan Williams
2010-02-05 9:11 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-02-05 6:59 ` Dan Williams
2010-02-05 7:06 ` [PATCH] airo: fix WEP key clearing after c0380693520b1a1e4f756799a0edc379378b462a Dan Williams
2010-02-05 16:26 ` Chris Siebenmann
2010-02-05 19:20 ` Dan Williams
2010-02-05 23:12 ` Chris Siebenmann
2010-02-08 23:47 ` Dan Williams
2010-02-09 16:25 ` Chris Siebenmann
2010-02-09 17:17 ` Chris Siebenmann
2010-02-08 20:55 ` [PATCH v2] airo: fix setting zero length WEP key John W. Linville
2010-02-08 23:44 ` Dan Williams
2010-02-08 20:53 ` John W. Linville
2010-02-09 8:27 ` [PATCH] airo: return from set_wep_key() when key length is zero Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-02-26 14:10 ` [PATCH resend] " Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-02-26 23:09 ` Dan Williams
2010-02-27 1:26 ` John W. Linville
2010-03-01 7:47 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-02-26 23:09 ` [PATCH v2] airo: fix setting zero length WEP key Dan Williams
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