Re: Wireless device control fails using wireless-tools after sleep on iBook FireWire

[Steven Hanley <sjh@svana.org>]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:24:25PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote:
> Whenever iwconfig gets called on the wireless card after the iBook has
> been through a sleep/wake cycle, I then get
> 
> SIOCSIWESSID: No such device
> 
> whenever iwconfig is called again. Removing and reloading the driver
> causes it to come back to life, but until I do that, that's all I get if I
> try to call 'iwconfig' on the wireless card. The sleep notify routine for
> the airport driver seems to be gettiing called, but it doesn't appear to
> be taking care of saving and restoring some settings somewhere.

this was a problem with some of the earlier airport drivers in the kernel, get
a recent benh kernel running (2.4.6 or more recent) and the airport code will
sleep fine.

        See You
            Steve

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