Re: Recent wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager)

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Mon Mar 05 2007 - 01:55:37 EST


On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:16:25PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 04:08:57PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > Recent kernels are having troubles with wireless for me. Two seemingly
> > related problems:
> >
> > a) NetworkManager seems oblivious to the existence of my IPW2200
> > b) Manual iwconfig waits for 60s and then reports:
> >
> > Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
> > SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
>
> Do you have CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED enabled? If not, please do as that
> will keep you from having to change any userspace code.

No, it's disabled. Will test once I'm done tracking down the iwconfig
problem. From the help text for SYSFS_DEPRECATED:

If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or
later, it should be safe to say N here.

If we need an as-yet-unreleased HAL without it, I would say the above
should be changed to 2008 or so. If Debian actually cuts a release in
the next few months, you might make that 2010.

--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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