[FSO] Wifi in M5 no longer functioning

[Oleg Sadov]

В Срд, 04/02/2009 в 15:57 +0000, Andy Green пишет:
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> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> 
> |> In my FSO M5-equiped FR eth0 visible by iwconfig and my WiFi points
> |> successfully scaned by iwlist.
> |
> | Since the previous Jan 5th basis I understood the kernel had, there are
> | relatively few patches.  The main change is WLAN driver is now in modules.
> |
> |> But, seems like I found another unpleasant bug :(
> 
> I never met a pleasant one :-)
> 
> |> I tryed setting up direct WiFi network access (without hardware Access
> |> Points) for FR by hands (I successfully used such scenario for
> |> configuring wireless-networking for some OLPCs & traditional notebooks):
> |
> |> # iwconfig eth0 mode ad-hoc
> |> # iwconfig eth0 essid "my-wifi"
> |> # iwconfig eth0
> |> eth0      AR6000 802.11g  ESSID:"my-wifi"
> |>           Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.457 GHz  Cell: 4E:72:EC:8E:38:88
> |>           Bit Rate=1 Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
> |>           Retry:on
> |>           Encryption key:off
> |>           Power Management:off
> |>           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
> |
> |> # iwconfig eth0 channel 1
> |> # iwconfig eth0 key restricted 1234567890
> |> # iwconfig eth0
> |> eth0      AR6000 802.11g  ESSID:""
> |>           Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.457 GHz  Cell: 4E:72:EC:8E:38:88
> |>           Bit Rate=1 Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
> |>           Retry:on
> |>           Encryption key:1234-5678-90   Security mode:restricted
> |>           Power Management:off
> |>           Link Quality:0/94  Signal level:-95 dBm  Noise level:-97 dBm
> |>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
> |>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> |
> |> I lost my ESSID at this step and try setting up this one once again:
> |
> |> # iwconfig eth0 essid "my-wifi"
> |
> |> After that system hangs up and blinking by red LED in AUX button.
> 
> Right, panicked.
> 
> |> Seems like "restricted" key is key point for this situation -- with open
> |> key all works good.
> |
> |> Can someone try to reproduce this situation? May be something wrong with
> |> my hardware...
> 
> No it shouldn't panic anyway.
> 
> Can you open a Trac bug about this, just cut and paste your description
> here is fine.

Unfortunately, my account (linux-ink) don't have permissions for
publishing bugs at:

https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/newticket

I got:
Error: Forbidden
TICKET_CREATE privileges are required to perform this operation

This bug published at http://trac.freesmartphone.org on Ticket #344

> If we can reproduce it with a debug board it's probably not too hard to
> make the panic go away anyway.
> 
> Ad-hoc is relatively uncommon so it makes sense it's going to show more
> bugs.
> 
> - -Andy
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