Openmoko Bug #2277: Wireless does not work with the 2.6.29 kernel

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#2277: Wireless does not work with the 2.6.29 kernel
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 Reporter:  arhuaco  |          Owner:  openmoko-devel      
     Type:  defect   |         Status:  new                 
 Priority:  normal   |      Milestone:  stable-kernel-2009.1
Component:  unknown  |        Version:                      
 Severity:  normal   |       Keywords:                      
 Haspatch:  0        |      Blockedby:                      
Estimated:           |    Patchreview:                      
 Blocking:           |   Reproducible:                      
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Comment(by nicola.mfb):

 Here my test cases:

 kernel git rev r81c61a7d1abb03aecd13f5395aba355e996a1641

 * startup shr-testing 22 april and wait until eth0 disappears from
 iwconfig/ifconfig
 * dbus call to change wifi policy to enabled

 first issue: no wpa_supplicant is started (it's configured in
 /etc/network/interfaces), it seems as interfaces comes up so
 /etc/udev/scripts/network.sh ignores it and does not launch ifup, here a
 workaround is simple, but should be investigated.

 * iwconfig eth0 shows:
 {{{
 eth0      AR6000 802.11g  ESSID:""
           Mode:Managed  Bit Rate=1 Mb/s   Tx-Power=0 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
           Retry:on
           Encryption key:off
           Power Management:on
           Link Quality:0/94  Signal level:-95 dBm  Noise level:-96 dBm
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
 }}}

 * ifconfig eth0 down
 * iwconfig now show:
 {{{
 eth0      AR6000 802.11g  ESSID:""
           Mode:Managed  Bit Rate=1 Mb/s   Sensitivity=0
           Encryption key:off
           Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
           Rx invalid nwid:0  invalid crypt:0  invalid misc:0

 }}}

 * dbus call to set wifi policy to auto
 * framworkd says:
 {{{
 2009.04.30 01:21:27.646 frameworkd.resource  INFO     setting resource
 status for WiFi from enabled to disabling
 2009.04.30 01:21:27.924 frameworkd.resource  INFO     setting resource
 status for WiFi from disabling to disabled
 2009.04.30 01:21:27.971 ousaged              INFO     Disabled WiFi in 0.4
 seconds
 2009.04.30 01:21:31.7 odeviced.powercontrol WARNING  odeviced.powercontrol
 expected a power change for WiFi to False which didn't happen
 }}}

 At this point wifi is not more usable for me.

      Nicola

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