Re: Problems with network-manager 0.6.6 in Ubuntu(8.04)

[Nikolaus Filus <nfilus gmx net>]

Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 02:14 -0500, Rev. Justin Brown wrote:
> > >         It's mostly driver related issues that the SCAN_CAP NM patch
> > >         fix in
> > >         concert with the kernel patch.  Having only the NM side of
> > >         that will
> > >         still make NM use AP_SCAN=2, leading to probably failures in
> > >         many
> > >         mac80211 drivers.
> > >         
> > >         Dan 
> > >
> > > Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, I can't find any info on how to
> > > fix this. Could you point me in the right direction? Do I need to
> > > patch my kernel or switch drivers?
> > Best is to get your distro to include the scan capability patch, which
> > is already in 2.6.25 and is a quite trivial backport.  You can tell if
> > your card has the scan capability bits or not because NM will print out
> > a message to that effect when it starts up.
>
> > Dan
>
> Is this the message in question:
>
> Apr 4 13:40:09 g NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: driver supports SSID
> scans (scan_capa 0x01).
>
> If so, this bug report on a somewhat unrelated matter:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/211780
>
> ...which would indicate this has been in Hardy since 2.6.24-12 at least.
>
> If that is true (I have not tried my own), that is a problem as it still
> does not appear to work and I run -15.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/186296

indicates there was a time where the patch was included - has to be proved again?!


Nikolaus
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