Unable to set Intel wireless card to master mode

[Damu R]

Hi,
I am having a HP EliteBook 6930p laptop with Intel Ultimate  N WiFi Link
5300. Though the card supports master mode I am not able to set it to run in
master mode. Is there anyway I can enable this mode?

$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode master
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.

$ sudo /usr/sbin/hostapd ~/hostapd.conf
Configuration file: /home/damu/hostapd.conf
Could not set interface wlan0 flags: Input/output error
nl80211 driver initialization failed.
ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=4 eloop_data=0x9382a78 user_data=0x9382fe8
handler=0x807b9f0
ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=6 eloop_data=0x9384bb8 user_data=(nil)
handler=0x8085990

The description of the device from lshw and iw are given below.

lshw description:
  *-network
   description: Wireless interface
   product: Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300
   vendor: Intel Corporation
   physical id: 0
   bus info: pci@:02:00.0
   logical name: wlan0
   version: 00
   serial: 00:21:6a:6d:f6:c4
   width: 64 bits
   clock: 33MHz
   capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
wireless
   configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn driverversion=2.6.38-2-686
firmware=8.83.5.1 build 33692 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE
802.11abgn
   resources: irq:46 memory:d860-d8601fff

The supported modes from iw output:
Supported interface modes:
 * IBSS
 * managed
 * AP
 * AP/VLAN
 * monitor


Thanks
Damu

Unable to connect using pidgin normally

[Damu R]

Hi,
I am using pidgin-2.7.11-2 in my Debian Sid installation with Gnome3. It
does not go online when I change my status to Available. I have to disable
and enable the account for the password dialog to appear. The status says
that it is still waiting for network connection (even after I login to my
account). Is there any way to fix the issue?

Thanks
Damu

Laptop freezes after suspend/resume

[Damu R]

Hi,
I am having issues with suspend/resume in my laptop (HP EliteBook 6930p). I
am running Debian Sid with 2.6.39-2-686-pae Linux kernel. After 3 or 4
suspend/resume cycles my laptop freezes during next resume. I dont see any
errors in the kernel log. Is this a known issue? How can I find more info
about what is causing this issue?

Thanks
Damu

Re: Laptop freezes after suspend/resume

[Damu R]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Camaleón  wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:07:48 +0530, Damu R wrote:
>
> > I am having issues with suspend/resume in my laptop (HP EliteBook
> > 6930p). I am running Debian Sid with 2.6.39-2-686-pae Linux kernel.
> > After 3 or 4 suspend/resume cycles my laptop freezes during next resume.
> > I dont see any errors in the kernel log. Is this a known issue? How can
> > I find more info about what is causing this issue?
>
> Although you've already said there is no trace of a kerneloops in the
> logs, I would take a look into this Ubuntu bug which seems to affect the
> same hardware:
>
> [Hewlett-Packard HP EliteBook 6930p] suspend/resume failure
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/420424
>
> Thanks Camaleón. I will take a look at this bug.

Thanks
Damu