Re: brcmsmac driver only works when sitting next to the AP

["Roland Vossen" <rvossen broadcom com>]

> Hello Dan,
>
> can you reply ?

So much for responsiveness.

Camaleon, would you be able to provide additional logs as requested in 
one of my previous mails ?

Thanks, Roland.

> Thanks, Roland.
>
> On 08/17/2011 12:39 PM, Roland Vossen wrote:
> > > > '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.
> >
> > Well, the 1st sign that something goes wrong is the assert message in
> > NetworkManager. After that, the scans are the next things that go wrong.
> > So I don't understand why you think that this is a driver problem, I
> > would rather say this is a Network manager problem. Could you explain ?
> >
> > Thanks, Roland.