Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?
On 15 Jun 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > Yes, I know others have found it worked, and probably I have been doing
> > something very silly. But I've followed all the docs as conscientiously
> > as I can, without success. The Intellinux wireless org site says, in
> > bold letters:
> >
> > NOTE: The iwlwifi driver is experimental and may not work for you. YMMV.
> >
> >
> > I'll probably try again at some stage.
>
> when did you last try? Mine still works, though it's definitely a
> little buggy getting it to associate. I haven't upgraded the lappy in
> a while though, so maybe it's better. Currently, to get it to
> associate I have to run through the following hoops...
>
> ifup wlan0
> # can't do anything without upping the thing
>
> iwlist wlan0 scan
> # will perform a scan (can you get this part to work?)
>
> iwconfig wlan0 essid <essid of choice>
>
> and then various permutations of
>
> iwconfig wlan0 channel <chan #>
> iwconfig wlan0 ap off
> iwconfig wlan0 ap <MAC of desired ap>
>
> all while watching
>
> tail -f /var/log/syslog
>
> in another terminal until I get the (paraphrased) message:
>
> NETDEV: wlan0 comes ready
>
> or something like that.
>
> I've tried to script this, but it just doesn't work reliably, which is
> frustrating. It seems that the driver doesn't actually do what it
> claims with regard to the 'ap off' command. It usually just tries to
> associate with the last ap, even if that ap is 100 miles away.
>
> its frustrating, but does work. And once it comes up, it works great.
>
> hth.
>
> A
Is there really any point in doing all this? Using the old system on a
2.6.23 kernel the connection comes up immediately and works flawlessly.
Apart from the fact that I can't use any later kernels there is no
disadvantage. I think that the iwlwifi business has been forced on us
prematurely for no obvious benefit. I know we are supposed to help find
the bugs, but I think I'll wait until the thing works better before
going down that route again.
Anthony
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