Wireless in 2.6.15 (Was Re: [Gllug] Free Ubuntu 6.06 LTS CDs)

[Ryland, Peter]

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 17:05 +0100, Christian Smith wrote:
> On the subject of the Dapper release, I've been having problems with the 
> wireless networking. I get messages like:
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
> 
> The wireless device associates with an AP, so I can see the MAC address of 
> the access point, and I can tcpdump the interface and get packets, but 
> nothing is ever transmitted. Same card worked fine under breezy and 
> Windows. The card is based on the Atmel chipset.
> 
> I've noticed the same message in other distros using 2.6.15. Does anyone 
> else have problems with 2.6.15? I noticed that a lot of 802.11 work was 
> done for 2.6.15 (*), but was wondering how widespread the issues are.

Someone seems to have already reported this bug:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/atmel-firmware/+bug/30866

Perhaps you could help test the fix that was made?

Pete


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