[PLUG] 'connect' call fails on a specific wifi module

[Vasudeo Bidve]

Hi,

In one of my networking based projects, I am using two types of
wireless USB dongles. One has Realtek 5370 chipset. Another has
Atheros 9271 chipset. My application involves TCP/IP socket
communication in server-client mode. This works quite good with
Rt-5370 based module, but fails with Ath-9271 based module,
specifically in client mode!

In client mode, when the statement in my C code to 'connect' to a host
socket is executed, it returns with an error "Invalid argument" (errno
= EINVAL) !!!

Here are some other observations I have:

1. With the same Ath-9271 module, on the same board and same Linux
image, it works quite fine while in server mode. The function calls
'socket', 'bind', 'listen', 'accept', 'read', 'write' work well, but
it fails only at 'connect' while in client mode.
2. The same client mode C code runs well with Rt-5370 based module.
3. The same client mode C code, when built for i686 using native gcc
runs equally well on the Ath-9271 based module as well as on the
Rt-5370 based module.

I tried to look around for others facing similar issue. I found many,
but the solutions suggested were all regarding correctness of the
third argument to 'connect', i.e. the size of 'sockaddr_in' (or
'sockaddr_in6' for IPv6 as in my case) structure. I also had a quick
walk-through of the kernel code and came to know that this error is
returned against an invalid length of address structure passed to
'connect'. In my case, I found it being correct. Moreover, this
parameter is passed to 'connect' as it is received from the result of
a 'getaddrinfo' call, which initialises it properly. So, no doubt
there.

How can I get through this? Can anybody throw some light on this issue?

Thanks and Regards

Vasudeo K. Bidve