On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 21:12 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > 
> > I realize that it's an issue with softmac, and that softmac in the
> > kernel is not the latest.  Perhaps it should be upgraded, but I'm not
> > very good at convincing people, and I'm vary of starting another massive
> > tread before I catch up with my e-mail queue.
> > 
> 
> Would you care to elaborate? If there is any SoftMAC development outside the 
> kernel, I know nothing 
> about it.

More specifically:

Problem 1.

I set ESSID to one value.  The driver associates to the AP with that
ESSID (let's call it AP1).  I set ESSID to another value.  The driver
associates to AP2.  dhclient is not working.  I'm looking at the packets
in Wireshark.  I see packets with ToDS set, with addr1 of AP1, addr2 of
the Broadcom card and addr3 of AP2.  It's like the driver is sending the
packets to the new AP via the old one!

Problem 2.

iwconfig eth1 ap some_mac_addr
iwconfig eth1 ap auto
iwconfig eth1 shows AP as Invalid

I know that SoftMAC in the kernel is 1.1.13 (it calls itself
"git-1.1.13" in include/net/ieee80211.h).  The latest version released
by Intel is 1.2.17: http://ieee80211.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

If I'll fix the kernel version, I'm likely to be fixing fixed bugs.  I
was going to ask why SoftMAC is not being updated in the kernel, but I'm
afraid of triggering a flamewar (e.g. if Intel wants is and others
resist).

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

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