Re: Problems with ipw3945

[Alexander Sack <asac jwsdot com>]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:00:23AM -0500, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Alexander Sack wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 05:16:14PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 23:07 +0100, Martin Ginkel wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> on my notebook I'm trying to user NM to access wireless networks.
> >>> There is a larger problem with setting essids and
> >>> associating/disassociating
> >>> to APs.
> >> 0.6.5, right?
> >>
> >>> Apparently the card assumes to interpret the essid "" (empty) to be *any*.
> >> Yeah, that's the standard behavior.
> >>
> >>> Therefore it associates immediately to the next ap.
> >>> I watched this with iwevent.
> >>> Nm first sets the essid to "" to disassociate, later it sets the id, I
> >>> selected
> >>> in the menu. But the card is already associated by the "" setting and
> >>> NM waits forever for an association event after setting the id.
> >> Well, the driver needs to send the association event whenever it gets an
> >> association request, even if that association request is for the same AP
> >> that it's already associated with.  This seems like a driver bug to me.
> >> Association requests must always be followed by either a failed
> >> association event, or a valid associated AP event.  It sounds like the
> >> ipw3945 driver isn't doing that.
> >>
> > 
> > This is a drivers bug. We have a fix for that in ubuntu. You can find
> > it in:
> > 
> >   https://code.launchpad.net/~asac/intellinuxwireless/ipw3945.asac
> > 
> > the commit of revision 2 is what you want.
> 
> In which releases of Ubuntu does that fix appear?
> 

gutsy and hardy iirc.

 - Alexander