[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/network-manager: support WEXT drivers which report mode AUTO
Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
iluxave at gmail.com
Mon May 30 16:33:15 UTC 2016
From: "Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh" <ilya at total-knowledge.com>
Some wireless drivers report IW_MODE_AUTO instead of IW_MODE_MANAGED.
NetworkManager 1.0.12 introduced a change, which makes it skip such
interfaces.
This patch is a backport of a workaround for this problem from the
NetworkManager upstream.
Signed-off-by: Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh <ilya at total-knowledge.com>
---
.../0002-accept-auto-mode-interfaces.patch | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 package/network-manager/0002-accept-auto-mode-interfaces.patch
diff --git a/package/network-manager/0002-accept-auto-mode-interfaces.patch b/package/network-manager/0002-accept-auto-mode-interfaces.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3ea1de6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/network-manager/0002-accept-auto-mode-interfaces.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From 0f6febc6fbeafde62e6e0a8c12f57204d94166fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Francesco Giudici <fgiudici at redhat.com>
+Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 09:55:39 +0100
+Subject: wifi: hack for wext devices reporting IW_MODE_AUTO configuration
+ mode.
+
+https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763388
+
+diff --git a/src/platform/wifi/wifi-utils-wext.c b/src/platform/wifi/wifi-utils-wext.c
+index 26f4ce4..af285b4 100644
+--- a/src/platform/wifi/wifi-utils-wext.c
++++ b/src/platform/wifi/wifi-utils-wext.c
+@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ wifi_wext_get_mode (WifiData *data)
+ case IW_MODE_MASTER:
+ return NM_802_11_MODE_AP;
+ case IW_MODE_INFRA:
++ case IW_MODE_AUTO: /* hack for WEXT devices reporting IW_MODE_AUTO */
+ return NM_802_11_MODE_INFRA;
+ default:
+ break;
+--
+cgit v0.10.2
+
--
2.7.3
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