Re: brcmsmac driver only works when sitting next to the AP
- From: Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>
- To: Roland Vossen <rvossen broadcom com>
- Cc: "devel driverdev osuosl org" <devel driverdev osuosl org>, Arend, Henry Ptasinski <henryp broadcom com>, "linux-wireless vger kernel org" <linux-wireless vger kernel org>, Camaleón <noelamac gmail com>, Brett Rudley <brudley broadcom com>, Spriel <arend broadcom com>, networkmanager-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: brcmsmac driver only works when sitting next to the AP
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:40:10 -0500
On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 13:36 +0200, Roland Vossen wrote:
> Hello Camaleón,
>
> So the first problem that you encounter is that scan does not work. Lets
> dive into that first.
>
> I see in the log that you sent:
>
> 'Aug 14 13:39:02 stt300 NetworkManager[1181]:
> supplicant_interface_acquire: assertion `mgr_state ==
> NM_SUPPLICANT_MANAGER_STATE_IDLE' failed'
>
> I also see many 'wpa_supplicant[1204]: Failed to initiate AP scan' messages.
>
> There are no 'Failed to initiate AP scan' messages before the 'assertion
> failed' message. I do not know if the 2nd message is a byproduct of the
> 1st result. Regardless, a failed assertion is serious. I cc'ed the
> network manager mailing list.
Yeah, the scanning issues are almost certainly what's causing stuff to
fail; which obviously seems like a driver issue at this point.
Dan
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