/lib/rc/net/iwconfig.sh: line 45: + instead of - leads to an infinite loop if driver doesn't set ESSID immediately. same file, line 73: _down before iwconfig $IFACE mode $mode. Comment above says that it is needed by Devicescape stack, but I have a RaLink rt2860 card (Asus Eee Pc 901) with out-of-tree driver, and it cannot set mode when interface is down. Result: * Bringing up interface ra0 * Configuring wireless network for ra0 Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down. Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down. Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) : SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down. * ra0 does not support setting SSID to "MarSoft" * Failed to configure wireless for ra0 * ERROR: net.ra0 failed to start while if i comment out this line, it initializes ok. Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.6.2 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7-i686-Intel-R-_Atom-TM-_CPU_N270_@_1.60GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p48 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.0 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sfperms strict userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.corbina.net/pub/Linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org/pub/gentoo/" LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_ALL="" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="ru" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 audacious bash-completion berkdb bittorrent bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cjk cli cracklib crypt css cups curl custom-optimization cxx dbus djvu dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode exif fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac flash fontconfig fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gimp gnutls gpm grammar gsm gtk gtk2 hal hddtemp icecast iconv id3tag idle idn ion3-voidupstreamsupport-truetype isdnlog jabber jack jackmidi java javascript jpeg kmid lame laptop libnotify libsamplerate libxml2 lilypond lm_sensors lua lyrics mad midi mmx mozdevelop mozilla mp3 mplayer mudflap multicall multiuser musepack ncurses netboot nethack network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc ogg old-daemons opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl plugins png pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rar rdesktop readline reflection rss samba sdl session sndfile sox speex spell spl srt sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs syslog taglib tcpd theora threads tiff timidity tk trayicon truetype twolame type1 unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd vim vim-pager vim-syntax vim-with-x vorbis wavpack win32codecs wma x86 xcb xcomposite xft xhtml xinerama xml xorg xpm xrandr xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="ru" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel vesa fbdev vga" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 176093 [details, diff] patch for line 45 (+ instead of -)
Created attachment 176094 [details, diff] temporary workaround for line 73 (downing interface) I don't know what is a Devicescape stack, and if it will conflict with my workaround.
Reassigning to base-system herd, CCing maintainer...
I've added the first patch to my SVN, thanks. I won't merge the second patch as that breaks my rt2500pci card :)
Probably, we need to check in patch2, what card is used, and do or don't downing interface... BTW, now I'm using wpa_supplicant, and it hasn't that problem. But I couldn't configure wpa_supplicant for ad-hoc mode.
(In reply to comment #5) > Probably, we need to check in patch2, what card is used, and do or don't > downing interface... How do you propose that is done? I'm pretty sure it cannot be done. It most we could provide a toggle, but I would recommend fixing the driver. > BTW, now I'm using wpa_supplicant, and it hasn't that problem. But I couldn't > configure wpa_supplicant for ad-hoc mode. That's a wpa_supplicant issue to take upstream :)
(In reply to comment #6) > > How do you propose that is done? > I'm pretty sure it cannot be done. It most we could provide a toggle, but I > would recommend fixing the driver. > Well, it may be done for example with this 'dirty workaround': # Devicescape stack requires the interface to be down # But rt2860sta driver requires it to be up... iwconfig "${IFACE}" | grep 'Nickname:"RT2860STA"' || _down iwconfig "${IFACE}" mode "${mode}" || return 1 _up }
The driver is in kernel now, but as a 'staging'.
Fixed drivers appear to be in kernel 2.6.30.
