Bug#383169: Doesn't reassociate after resume

[Reinhard Tartler]

Kel Modderman <kelrin at tpg.com.au> writes:

>> I think http://madwifi.org/ticket/671 may be related, but 'sudo iwconfig
>> ath0 FAU-VPN' in another shell as suggested in that ticket  didn't help
>> me :(
>
> And #201. Its a pretty old, known issue. I've made a few attempts at looking 
> at it with no result so far. Will make another effort soon, but I cannot 
> promise that anything can be fixed in a driver that is partially opaque.

since 0.9.2+r1710.20060914-1, this bug is fixed at least for me. In the
referenced upstream bug the issue seems still not solved, so I leave it
to the madwifi maintainers to close this.

>> My current workaround is to rmmod ath-hal and reload ath-pci after
>> resuming, which is suboptimal and shouldn't be necessary. In fact, this
>> seems to be a regression from the madwifi-old branch.
>
> Yep, it is a regression that is biting me too, although most good suspend 
> managers (ie powersave) hide it quite well by automating module removal and 
> reinsertion,

They do this because of bugs in device drivers like this one. I don't
think the ability to reload device drivers on suspend is a good excuse
for not caring about these bugs, since ...

> however this will require the networking system(s) to be restarted,
> which is no good . . .

is no good and causes other problems.

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