Hello, I run a recent (2.6.28>RC7) Linus git head and ath9k seems to be pretty usable and stable in Managed mode. However, I just arrived at relatives place and I noticed that I get frequent disconnections from their AP whereas the link quality is quite good. Disconnections might be related to traffic (streaming or ftp). This AP seems to be a Belkin one (don't know the model, though) and the connexion is open (no encryption). I haven't activated particular debug flags, so here is what dmesg yields :
[ 85.605063] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1c:df:89:01:ed [ 85.805101] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1c:df:89:01:ed [ 86.004696] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1c:df:89:01:ed [ 86.205018] wlan0: authentication with AP 00:1c:df:89:01:ed timed out [ 97.939956] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1c:df:89:01:ed [ 97.944058] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1c:df:89:01:ed [ 97.945780] wlan0: authenticated [ 97.945787] wlan0: associate with AP 00:1c:df:89:01:ed [ 97.950313] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:1c:df:89:01:ed (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=1) [ 97.950319] wlan0: associated [ 97.958059] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready [ 115.932052] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present [ 923.980062] wlan0: No ProbeResp from current AP 00:1c:df:89:01:ed - assume out of range [ 934.094111] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 935.157966] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1c:df:89:01:ed [ 935.162203] wlan0: authenticated [ 935.162210] wlan0: associate with AP 00:1c:df:89:01:ed [ 935.166782] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:1c:df:89:01:ed (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=1) [ 935.166788] wlan0: associated [ 935.175472] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready [ 939.554634] wlan0: deauthenticating by local choice (reason=3) [ 942.980694] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 947.574240] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1c:df:89:01:ed [ 947.575692] wlan0: authenticated [ 947.575698] wlan0: associate with AP 00:1c:df:89:01:ed [ 947.579413] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:1c:df:89:01:ed (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=1) [ 947.579418] wlan0: associated [ 947.587458] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready [ 961.389050] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present [ 1067.584062] wlan0: No ProbeResp from current AP 00:1c:df:89:01:ed - assume out of range [ 1070.059342] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1c:df:89:01:ed [ 1070.064886] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1c:df:89:01:ed [ 1070.260041] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1c:df:89:01:ed [ 1070.460052] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1c:df:89:01:ed [ 1070.660166] wlan0: authentication with AP 00:1c:df:89:01:ed timed out [ 1148.042578] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 1149.150780] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 1151.303907] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1c:df:89:01:ed [ 1151.305367] wlan0: authenticated [ 1151.305373] wlan0: associate with AP 00:1c:df:89:01:ed [ 1151.309180] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:1c:df:89:01:ed (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=1) [ 1151.309186] wlan0: associated [ 1151.316825] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready [ 1169.356046] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present I see both "no probe respond" and "deauthentication by local choice" messages. Should you need more verbose outputs, please feel free to ask (and please tell me what option I should enable in make menuconfig, since I am not a kernel guru at all). One last thing, I use network manager, and I noticed that after disconnection, NM tries to automatically reconnect to the AP. This always fails, however, if during that time I just select the AP through the network manager applet, then association seems to succeed... -- Alexandre Fournier "And we've been told so many lies We can't believe in paradise" Les Thugs - As happpy as _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
