brcmsmac driver only works when sitting next to the AP

[Roland Vossen]

> I do not channel work email to a Blackberry.  Chill out.

You are right, I was too impatient. I am sorry for that.

> The error about supplicant manager state is not important, as the
> supplicant later transitions to idle/ready state and NM proceeds.  What
> *is* important is the inability of the driver to perform scans, which
> means that no scan list is available for the supplicant to work with,
> and thus it cannot associate with any known AP.  What we want now is
> driver debugging information about *why* the driver refuses to perform
> scans.

Ok, now it is clear to me why the assert is not relevant. I'll dive into 
this deeper.

Thanks, Roland.