Dan Williams skrev: > On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 11:33 +0100, Bjorge Solli wrote: >> Hi Dan and others, >> >> we see a problem with intel wireless cards on our Fedora 9 with 2.6.26 >> kernel. >> >> The problem exists (it seems) only on our high end wireless routers, not >> on cheap home access points. I have seen it on both a and g networks, on >> two different brands of routers (both cisco). >> >> The router receives the first request for connection, but it gives up >> replying after 10 tries. This results in no connection when the wireless >> card times out. >> >> We are able to "solve" this in these ways: >> - restart NetworkManager service many times until it works. >> - revert to 2.6.25 kernel >> >> We have seen the same on Ubuntu. >> >> We first thought it was due to bad firmware, but we have produced the >> same results with all fw we could get our hands on. >> >> It seems to me that this is not a bug in NM, but in the kernel, and that >> NM sometimes does "The Right Thing" to make it work, and other times >> not. I'm guessing it's a kernel issue, but want your advice on this topic. > > There's an Fedora kernel bug open for this one; if you can, try turning > off 802.11n if the AP has 802.11n enabled. If that fixes the problem, > then it's the same thing that worked for some other people in the bug, > and clearly indicates a kernel driver/stack bug that needs to be fixed.
I will try this tomorrow (I'm on CET). Will this bug have this effect even when the AP don't have n-network available? I'm not sure how to turn n of though, is it a sw or bios setting? It's a HP 2510p. Do you have a bugzilla-url? Thanks Bjørge _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
