Wireless Testing Needed for F7

[Tom London]

On 5/15/07, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 19:22 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > Once upon a time Monday 14 May 2007, Warren Togami wrote:
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238657
> > > We are attempting to get wireless working on x86_64.
> >
> > > http://kojiweb.fedoraproject.org/packages/wireless-tools/28/3.fc7/
> > > If you use wireless on ANY arch of rawhide, please test this latest
> > > wireless-tools build.  We need to be sure that the x86_64 fix doesn't
> > > break i386 or ppc*.
> > >
> > > Please report in the above bug if release -3 is any better or worse than
> > > release -1 or -2.
> > >
> > > We really would like to confirm this before the proposed F7 final freeze
> > > on Thursday.
> > >
> > > Warren Togami
> > > wtogami at redhat.com
> >
> > wireless started working for me with this wireless-tools package.  i'm on a
> > Dell Latitude D820 x86_64 with iwl3945 driver
>
> For me, on an Lenovo X60 (x86) with the iwl3945 driver, on the current
> rawhide kernel (2.6.21-1.3149.fc7) and 28-3 release of the wireless tool
> this works until NetworkManager does a rescan.
>
> This is pretty much in line with what I've been seeing for quite a while
> over various kernels now (I've never had it work any more than this
> much, and often worse).
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
Same hardware, same results...  I get about 15 seconds worth of
traffic through before it 'stops working'.

Get lots of these (don't remember getting these before):

wlan0: CTS protection disabled (BSSID=00:14:6a:5b:3a:80)
printk: 18 messages suppressed.
wlan0: CTS protection enabled (BSSID=00:14:6a:5b:3a:80)
printk: 17 messages suppressed.
wlan0: CTS protection enabled (BSSID=00:14:6a:5b:3a:80)
printk: 20 messages suppressed.
wlan0: CTS protection disabled (BSSID=00:14:6a:5b:3a:80)


tom
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Tom London