Re: [Madwifi-devel] T42p Atheros Broken since r3405

[Pavel R. <pr...@gn...>]

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 02:29 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:55:34 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> 
> > Do you see anything interesting in the kernel log?
> 
> /var/log/messages shows the following when I unload/reload the driver 
> after the update:

The kernel log is shown by the "dmesg" command.  Not all kernel messages
go to /var/log/messages.

> Apr  3 20:22:00 jshlaptop kernel: ath_pci: wifi0: Atheros 5212: 
> mem=0xc0210000, irq=11

Maybe it's specific to your hardware.  Please run this:
lspci -v -s 02:02.0

> This was after updating to r3450 (which seems to update the moduels to 
> r3434 - svn info tells me that the last changed rev is 3434).

That's a very clear indication that you are on the trunk, not in the
madwifi-dfs branch.  Therefore, Benoit's revision 3404, which is indeed
intrusive, cannot affect you, as it's not in the trunk yet.

But Matthew's revision 3405 must be affecting you.

> The GNOME netstatus applet shows a single red diamond (indicating "not 
> associated", I believe) when the driver first loads, but when 
> NetworkManager starts trying to associate with an AP and get an IP 
> address, the icon changes to a red circle with a line through it - which 
> normally means the driver isn't present.  /var/log/messages doesn't show 
> the driver unloading, and an lsmod confirms it's still loaded.

I'm sorry, it's a thick layer of software, and it's simply impossible to
debug your problem like that, as we don't know what NetworkManager is
doing.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin