Re: Problems with ipw3945

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj umdnj edu>]

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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?

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