[arch-general] Wifi not working after kernel upgrade to 2.6.29

[Ondřej Kučera]

Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Ondřej Kučera schrieb:
>> I may look into that again in the evening but I'm quite sure that 
>> wpa_supplicant was running. I was able to run wpa_cli status without 
>> any weird errors or warnings. The only problem was that the status was 
>> "SCANNING" all the time (as I mentioned) which means that netcfg gives 
>> up after 20 seconds.
> 
> So this means we have at least 2 different problems. Can you increase 
> netcfg's timeout? Does "iwlist scan" (as root) show anything?

I think I tried increasing the timeout (although I don't remember to 
which value, I'll try again). I did try iwlist wlan0 scan and it worked 
without problems (I didn't see my AP but that's because it doesn't 
broadcast essid).

> Also, active scanning is disabled by default due to regulatory 
> restrictions. If you install the crda package and set your country code 
> in /etc/conf.d/wireless-regdom (then reboot or run 
> /etc/rc.d/wireless-regdom start) you should be able to do active scans 
> again, maybe that helps, maybe not.

OK I can try that as well and see what happens.

Ondřej


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Ondřej Kučera

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