Bug 184521

Summary: patch: Detect when bcm43xx has associated
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Caolan McNamara <caolanm>
Component: wpa_supplicantAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
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Fixed In Version: kernel 2.6.16-1.2088_FC6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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detect bcm43xx association
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upstream ieee80211 softmac suggested fix none

Description Caolan McNamara 2006-03-09 16:26:08 UTC 
I guess the bcm43xx driver is doing the wrong thing, but the following patch
allows wpa_supplicant to detect that my bcm32xx has associated and authenticated
again my WEP access point. NetworkManager's dhclient then runs and everything
looks great, as opposed to the current "associated timeout" error.

Sadly a iwlist scan, and/or NetworkManagers equivalent scan hoses the
connection, so I only get a miniscule window before the connection dies. So this
is of limited utility I guess unless bcm43xx can keep it's connection alive
during scanning, but perhaps useful to identify what needs to be fixed in the
driver for association.
Comment 1 Caolan McNamara 2006-03-09 16:26:09 UTC 
Created attachment 125880 [details]
detect bcm43xx association
Comment 2 Dan Williams 2006-03-09 18:21:35 UTC 
Created attachment 125890 [details]
upstream ieee80211 softmac suggested fix

Suggested fix for upstream ieee80211 softmac project
Comment 3 Dan Williams 2006-03-09 18:27:39 UTC 
Patch sent to netdev and softmac-dev for comments.
Comment 4 Caolan McNamara 2006-03-09 18:53:15 UTC 
looks like the good stuff
Comment 5 Caolan McNamara 2006-03-27 18:36:34 UTC 
All seems to work fine now with 2.6.16-1.2088_FC6 (horay!)