Debian testing wpa_supplicant 1.03 cannot roam between wifi APs without me killing wpa_supplicant (intel 6300 AGN)

[Marc MERLIN]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:57:22PM -0600, Dan Williams wrote:
> > The connection happens, but wireless is still broken:
> > NetworkManager[19347]: <info> Policy set 'magicnet' (wlan0) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS.
> > NetworkManager[19347]: <info> Activation (wlan0) successful, device activated.
> > NetworkManager[19347]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) complete.
> > kernel: [52779.305375] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: fail to flush all tx fifo queues
> > kernel: [52781.308225] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: fail to flush all tx fifo queues
> 
> You've got a driver problem then, not a supplicant problem.  The
> driver/chip is basically dead.  You can potentially resurrect by "rmmod
> iwlwifi; modprobe iwlwifi", but if you ever need to do that, the driver
> is buggy.

Yep, you are correct. When I first tested without -onl80211 in
wpa_supplicant, I didn't have this symptom (i.e. my first message in this
thread) and the wireless driver kept working without being reloaded, but now
that I switched to -onl80211, it seems to be showing a bug in the driver
itself.

Thanks for confirming that, and sorry for the false alarm.

Marc
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