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

[Camaleón <noelamac gmail com>]

El 2011-08-23 a las 11:27 +0200, Roland Vossen escribió:

> Hello Camaleón,
>
> I did not see anything unusual in the provided 'ps -A' output.
>
> I want to find out what the result of a scan is, specifically the RSSI.  
> In that way I can judge if this is a signal reception problem.
>
> Can you do the following:
>
> - unload brcmsmac driver (or simply don't load it)
> - 'sudo service network-manager stop'
> 	.. this gets network-manager out of the way, perhaps it is related to  
> the 'resource/device busy' message
> - load driver
> - 'sudo ifconfig wlan0 up'
> - 'sudo iw wlan0 scan'

Done. It gets stuck when issuing "iw wlan0 scan". I mean, I get no 
output, just a blinking cursor as is the task it is being running but 
returns nothing and logs (dmesg and /var/log/syslog) show nothing 
relevant.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón