Re: [RFC PATCH] bcm43xx: set channel when the interface is brought up

2007-01-26 Thread Johannes Berg
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 09:34 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: MLME? More acronyms I've not put in my wet dictionary.. :) The 802.11 specs have a huge list of acronyms you might want to be somewhat familiar with. I think I have a printout somewhere, can't ever remember them either ;) johannes

Re: [RFC PATCH] bcm43xx: set channel when the interface is brought up

2007-01-25 Thread Larry Finger
Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 25 January 2007 10:36, Larry Finger wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 25 January 2007 07:50, Jiri Benc wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:47:08 +0100, Ivo Van Doorn wrote: Correct, similar problems have been detected in rt2x00. The temporary solution in there

Re: [RFC PATCH] bcm43xx: set channel when the interface is brought up

2007-01-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 25 January 2007 12:19, Larry Finger wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 25 January 2007 10:36, Larry Finger wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 25 January 2007 07:50, Jiri Benc wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:47:08 +0100, Ivo Van Doorn wrote: Correct, similar problems have

Re: [RFC PATCH] bcm43xx: set channel when the interface is brought up

2007-01-25 Thread Daniel Gryniewicz
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:19 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: It is straight-forward for me with SoftMAC using openSUSE 10.2 with KDE. In YaST, I told NetworkServices/NetworkDevices that I was using NM to configure, rather than the ifcfg method. After logging in, I clicked on the NM helper

Re: [RFC PATCH] bcm43xx: set channel when the interface is brought up

2007-01-25 Thread Dave Maley
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 12:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: It is straight-forward for me with SoftMAC using openSUSE 10.2 with KDE. In YaST, I told NetworkServices/NetworkDevices that I was using NM to configure, rather than the ifcfg method. After logging in, I clicked on the NM helper applet

Re: [RFC PATCH] bcm43xx: set channel when the interface is brought up

2007-01-25 Thread Jiri Benc
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:50:54 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: It turns out d80211 uses the config method of the hardware drivers very sparingly. It's only used for scanning and in ioctl commands. It is not called after the interface has been brought up with the open method. I don't know whose

Re: [RFC PATCH] bcm43xx: set channel when the interface is brought up

2007-01-25 Thread Jiri Benc
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:47:08 +0100, Ivo Van Doorn wrote: Correct, similar problems have been detected in rt2x00. The temporary solution in there is to demand a scanning operation after the interface has been brought up. Scanning? No no no, please! That would be a clear bug and misbehaviour.

Re: [RFC PATCH] bcm43xx: set channel when the interface is brought up

2007-01-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 25 January 2007 07:50, Jiri Benc wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:47:08 +0100, Ivo Van Doorn wrote: Correct, similar problems have been detected in rt2x00. The temporary solution in there is to demand a scanning operation after the interface has been brought up. Scanning? No no no,

Re: [RFC PATCH] bcm43xx: set channel when the interface is brought up

2007-01-25 Thread Jiri Benc
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:05:32 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Oh? I'm sitting here watching the tty0 screen of my lappy after x has been started, and I have established a connection, but SoftMAC is still logging its scan activity, starting with channel 1 and scanning 14 channels. Its doing this

Re: [RFC PATCH] bcm43xx: set channel when the interface is brought up

2007-01-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 25 January 2007 09:23, Jiri Benc wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:05:32 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Oh? I'm sitting here watching the tty0 screen of my lappy after x has been started, and I have established a connection, but SoftMAC is still logging its scan activity, starting with

Re: [RFC PATCH] bcm43xx: set channel when the interface is brought up

2007-01-25 Thread Larry Finger
Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 25 January 2007 07:50, Jiri Benc wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:47:08 +0100, Ivo Van Doorn wrote: Correct, similar problems have been detected in rt2x00. The temporary solution in there is to demand a scanning operation after the interface has been brought up.

Re: [RFC PATCH] bcm43xx: set channel when the interface is brought up

2007-01-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 25 January 2007 12:32, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:19 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: It is straight-forward for me with SoftMAC using openSUSE 10.2 with KDE. In YaST, I told NetworkServices/NetworkDevices that I was using NM to configure, rather than the ifcfg

Re: [RFC PATCH] bcm43xx: set channel when the interface is brought up

2007-01-25 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Donnerstag 25 Januar 2007 19:34 schrieb Gene Heskett: NM in FC5 and FC6 should offer you the option of storing the key in the gnome-keyring.  Maybe you don't have the gnome-keyring package installed? This is assuming you're running gnome, not exactly sure how this works in KDE. I hate