Sometimes, most of the time, when I try to reload/restart my wifi interface, I get a "No active IBSS STAs" message in my syslog, and my subsequent dhcpcd call fails "waiting for carrier". However, it does seem to sortof still work -- if I manually run dhcpcd a few seconds later, it works.
iw event -t: 1287961348.312835: wlan0 (phy #0): IBSS ... joined 1287961348.599939: wlan0: unknown event 19 1287961350.033722: wlan0: unknown event 1 syslog: /etc/init.d/net.wlan0[11116]: WARNING: net.wlan0 has started, but is inactive kernel: b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 kernel: wlan0: Selected IBSS BSSID ... based on configured SSID wpa_cli: interface wlan0 CONNECTED dhcpcd: version 5.1.3 starting kernel: wlan0: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS networks with same SSID (merge) dhcpcd: wlan0: waiting for carrier However, on other rare times, when a "Trigger new scan" occurs, it all works smoothly. iw event -t: 1287961295.764797: wlan0 (phy #0): IBSS ... joined 1287961295.865132: wlan0: unknown event 19 syslog: /etc/init.d/net.wlan0[10708]: WARNING: net.wlan0 has started, but is inactive kernel: b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 kernel: wlan0: Trigger new scan to find an IBSS to join kernel: wlan0: Selected IBSS BSSID ... based on configured SSID wpa_cli: interface wlan0 CONNECTED dhcpcd: version 5.1.3 starting dhcpcd: wlan0: rebinding lease of 10.0.1.4 dhcpcd: wlan0: acknowledged 10.0.1.4 from 10.0.1.1 Thoughts? What triggers the trigger? _______________________________________________ b43-dev mailing list b43-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev
