From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.229]:14692 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751210AbZHUBHh (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:07:37 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f6so109659rvb.1 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:07:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A8DF356.8000501@lwfinger.net> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:07:34 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, "John W. Linville" , Hin-Tak Leung , "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtl8187: always set MSR_LINK_ENEDCA flag with RTL8187B References: <200908202116.17847.herton@mandriva.com.br> In-Reply-To: <200908202116.17847.herton@mandriva.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote: > RTL8187B always needs MSR_LINK_ENEDCA flag to be set even when it is in > no link mode, otherwise it'll not be able to associate when this flag is > not set after the change "mac80211: fix managed mode BSSID handling" > (commit 9cef8737). > > By accident, setting BSSID of AP before association makes 8187B to > successfuly associate even when ENEDCA flag isn't set, which was the > case before the mac80211 change. But now the BSSID of AP we are trying > to associate is only available after association is successful, and > any attempt to associate without the needed flag doesn't work. > > Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski > --- Tested-by: Larry Finger I had just finished bisecting the problem reported in Bug #13960 when this patch from Herton appeared in my mailbox, and it fixed the problem. Larry