Bug 915689

Summary: WARNING: at net/mac80211/scan.c:524 __ieee80211_start_scan+0x4e4/0x4f0 [mac80211]()
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Branko Grubić <bitlord0xff>
Component: kernelAssignee: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 18CC: gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda
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Last Closed: 2013-03-08 15:50:51 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Branko Grubić 2013-02-26 10:42:01 UTC
Created attachment 702778 [details]
kernel messages

Description of problem: My wifi stopped working, I can enable/disable it using network manager, but I'm not able to see any network, tried few commands I used before (I hope the syntax is correct) like:
# iwlist wlan0 scan
It doesn't work returns message
"wlan0     Interface doesn't support scanning : Invalid argument"
tried iwconfig 
# iwconfig wlan0 essid "some_existing_essid"
and it gives this WARNING


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.7.9-201.fc18.x86_64


How reproducible: 
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. iwlist wlan0 scan OR ifconfig wlan0 up 
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
Wifi doesn't work, kernel returns Warning at certain operations


Expected results:
wifi works, no warning message 

Additional info:

Comment 1 Stanislaw Gruszka 2013-02-26 14:22:59 UTC
Please attach full dmesg

Comment 2 Branko Grubić 2013-02-26 15:00:00 UTC
Created attachment 702934 [details]
dmesg

Comment 3 Stanislaw Gruszka 2013-02-26 15:37:24 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Description of problem: My wifi stopped working, I can enable/disable it
> using network manager, but I'm not able to see any network, tried few
> commands I used before (I hope the syntax is correct) like:

Does it mean that update of the kernel broke wifi for you? If so what was the latest kernel version which worked ?

Comment 4 Branko Grubić 2013-02-26 15:53:19 UTC
It is hard to tell if it is the kernel problem (I don't know much), I use f18 from pre-Beta days, and it worked most of the time, no similar issues, worked after final too (I don't use wifi all the time, I mostly used wired network). But now there is other problem I cannot test older kernel versions, because they are removed and I did fresh install (few days ago). 
At the moment I have installed:
kernel-3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64
kernel-3.7.8-202.fc18.x86_64
kernel-3.7.9-201.fc18.x86_64

3.7.8-202 doesn't work (doesn't show any available wifi network in network manager), then I upgraded to 3.7.9-201, same problem, I think I tried first kernel which came with f18 3.6.10-4 and got same problem, that was the first time I tried using iwlist, iwconfig and ifconfig to test things, and got this kernel warning and wanted to test and reproduce it on latest stable kernel available in fedora.

Comment 5 Stanislaw Gruszka 2013-03-08 15:22:13 UTC
Anything better with updated 3.8 kernel and updated NetworkManager ?

Comment 6 Branko Grubić 2013-03-08 15:50:51 UTC
It is complicated to explain what I did in between. I needed my laptop with working wireless, so only solution was to copy _backup disk image_ of another system (I used before and I maintain sometimes), on that system it worked fine with vanilla kernel 3.7.9 - 3.8.1 ("custom configuration") and network manager. But I don't have much space to keep all system images so I removed fedora, and did a fresh install later, now it works without problems (system is up-to-date). So this can be closed.