on Mon Jul 28 2008, Dan Williams <dcbw-AT-redhat.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 19:27 -0400, David Abrahams wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've been unable to set up an ad-hoc network with iwl3945 and >> NetworkManager; the log file suspiciously shows a warning about setting >> a blank ESSID, but I can't tell if that's really the problem or not. >> Google has shown me lots of logs with a similar error. >> >> Can anyone help? > > You need some fixes to wpa_supplicant and the kernel wireless stack, > which you should probably poke your distro about shipping. The required > kernel patches are in 2.6.26 already and are pretty easy for your distro > to backport. The patches are: > > wpa_supplicant: > [PATCH] wpa_supplicant: give adhoc associations a bit more time > [PATCH v2] wext: handle mode switches correctly for mac80211 > > kernel (wireless-testing.git): > 872ba53395b2a8be08c3ea2d39e225e5b4a8cb40 mac80211: decrease IBSS creation > latency > 507b06d0622480f8026d49a94f86068bb0fd6ed6 mac80211: send association event on > IBSS create
Done, and thank you! https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpasupplicant/+bug/252573 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpasupplicant/+bug/252574 Regards, -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
