Re: bcm43xx finally working, with encryption too!!!

[Aaron Kerr <Aaron.Kerr@Sun.COM>]

I have found that scanning before dhcp is vital to having a working
bcm43xx interface. When I try to bring up my bcm43xx interface without
scanning (until I see a network) dhclient fails to get an IP address. If
I scan until I see my network dhclient works every time (well almost
every time). Like a lot of my pre-up script I do not know why it is
needed but it seems to make it work (see: modprobe -r, ifconfigs and scans).

Aaron


Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 08:01 -0500, Shreyas Ananthan wrote:
> 
> 
>>I tried this approach, it seems, at least from the behavior in my
>>ibook, that the commands with "post-up" run after the dhcp command. So
>>it still doesn't do the iwlist scanning before dhcp command.
> 
> 
> I don't really understand why you all want to scan before doing stuff.
> It isn't necessary. softmac scans automatically before associating.
> 
> johannes