Re: intel pro wireless 3945ABG + Feisty Ubuntu + F7t4

[Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU>]

Quoting Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>:

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> > May  3 12:07:39 pgpdev NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) 
> > Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) complete.
> > May  3 12:07:39 pgpdev NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) 
> > successful, device activated.
>
> Interesting; that means that the device either (a) doesn't think it has
> a link, or (b) the device's preferred access point is no longer valid.
>
> (a) is more likely a driver thing, (b) is more likely an NM thing.
>
> I'm thinking more and more that we need more debugging info in NM.  It
> would probably be worth it to sanitize the debugging printouts for 0.6.5
> and make NM cycle through debug levels with a SIGHUP or something.
> Because we're just not getting enough debug info from most users.

I suspect a bit of both.  The iwlwifi driver still feels unstable.
After I sent this message off I DID sucessfully connect to my 802.11g
network, but I still can't seem to connect to the 802.11a at all.
(Keep in mind that it's the same BSSID for both networks).  I was
connected for a while, but then it just stopped sending packets and
I couldn't reconnect again.

I'm certainly happy to help in whatever debugging you'd like me to
do.  Unfortunately I dont think this new laptop is stable enough for
me to take it with me to California next week, so I'll stil with my
old one.  But when I get back I'll certainly be happy to help debug
in any way I can.

I'd like to see Fedora 7 + NM + iwlwifi solidify quickly.  :)  I got
the 3945 specifically on the theory that it would be more stable
than an Atheros card.  I hope I wasn't mistaken!

> Dan

-derek

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