[FSO] Wifi in M5 no longer functioning

Oleg Sadov sadov at linux-ink.ru
Wed Feb 4 17:32:58 CET 2009


04/02/2009 19:26 +0300, Oleg Sadov wrote:
> 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

I got verification message from the OpenMoko Trac and publish this bug
report under the Ticket #2227.

> 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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