Re: Roaming to (none) ((none))

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 05:15 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Dan Williams schrieb:
> > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 21:28 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >> Michael Biebl schrieb:
> >>> Michael Biebl schrieb:
> >>>
> >>>> So, NM is obviously getting the wrong freq from the card.
> >>> Narrowed the problem further:
> >>> iw_get_ext() in nm_device_802_11_wireless_get_frequency() sets
> >>> wrq.u.freq to 0.
> >> Actually, it's 1.0
> > 
> > Hmm; it could be that NM needs to do channel -> freq conversion here.
> > It's a bit undefined whether drivers pass back the channel or the
> > frequency.  So I guess NM needs to handle both.  There's defined
> > semantics in the iw_float part to flag whether the returned value is a
> > channel or a frequency.
> 
> You were completey right. I switched the ap to channel 6,
> now freq is 6.0. So indeed, it seems to return the channel, not the
> frequency directly.

Can you try SVN r3189 and let me know if that works for you?

Thanks,
Dan

> > 
> > Another possibility is that the driver has some issue with getting the
> > frequency off the card periodically.
> 
> Doesn't seem to be the case.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
>