Ryan Novosielski wrote: > Dan Williams wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 02:14 -0500, Rev. Justin Brown wrote: >>> It's mostly driver related issues that the SCAN_CAP NM patch >>> fix in >>> concert with the kernel patch. Having only the NM side of >>> that will >>> still make NM use AP_SCAN=2, leading to probably failures in >>> many >>> mac80211 drivers. >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, I can't find any info on how to >>> fix this. Could you point me in the right direction? Do I need to >>> patch my kernel or switch drivers? >> Best is to get your distro to include the scan capability patch, which >> is already in 2.6.25 and is a quite trivial backport. You can tell if >> your card has the scan capability bits or not because NM will print out >> a message to that effect when it starts up. > >> Dan > > Is this the message in question: > > Apr 4 13:40:09 g NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: driver supports SSID > scans (scan_capa 0x01). > > If so, this bug report on a somewhat unrelated matter: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/211780 > > ...which would indicate this has been in Hardy since 2.6.24-12 at least. > > If that is true (I have not tried my own), that is a problem as it still > does not appear to work and I run -15. >
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/186296 indicates there was a time where the patch was included - has to be proved again?! Nikolaus _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
