On 15 Jun 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Yes, I know others have found it worked, and probably I have been doing > > something very silly. But I've followed all the docs as conscientiously > > as I can, without success. The Intellinux wireless org site says, in > > bold letters: > > > > NOTE: The iwlwifi driver is experimental and may not work for you. YMMV. > > > > > > I'll probably try again at some stage. > > when did you last try? Mine still works, though it's definitely a > little buggy getting it to associate. I haven't upgraded the lappy in > a while though, so maybe it's better. Currently, to get it to > associate I have to run through the following hoops... > > ifup wlan0 > # can't do anything without upping the thing > > iwlist wlan0 scan > # will perform a scan (can you get this part to work?) > > iwconfig wlan0 essid <essid of choice> > > and then various permutations of > > iwconfig wlan0 channel <chan #> > iwconfig wlan0 ap off > iwconfig wlan0 ap <MAC of desired ap> > > all while watching > > tail -f /var/log/syslog > > in another terminal until I get the (paraphrased) message: > > NETDEV: wlan0 comes ready > > or something like that. > > I've tried to script this, but it just doesn't work reliably, which is > frustrating. It seems that the driver doesn't actually do what it > claims with regard to the 'ap off' command. It usually just tries to > associate with the last ap, even if that ap is 100 miles away. > > its frustrating, but does work. And once it comes up, it works great. > > hth. > > A
Is there really any point in doing all this? Using the old system on a 2.6.23 kernel the connection comes up immediately and works flawlessly. Apart from the fact that I can't use any later kernels there is no disadvantage. I think that the iwlwifi business has been forced on us prematurely for no obvious benefit. I know we are supposed to help find the bugs, but I think I'll wait until the thing works better before going down that route again. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
