-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Andy Green wrote: |> Association is presumably lost because the firmware in the Atheros |> module is directly seeing this "go down", "come back up from scratch" |> traffic. | | The module actually has to be reset for letting the SDIO stack | rediscover it. The SDIO spec allows the usual detection process | only after a power-on reset (or, in our case, pulling the reset | line) or a soft reset (where you set a bit to reset the IO | function).
OK, it's not willing to do the "come back up from scratch" stuff demanded by the stack until reset but it means the same. |> It's fine for now, It's no worse than normal soft MAC device under Linux |> where mac80211 is down in suspend and association is lost: |> NetworkManager or similar will reacquire it on resume. | | Oh, good. Does it also set ESSID, encryption, and such again ? | That would make things very easy for me ;-) Yes on normal laptop NetworkManager it does IOCTL or whatever for iwlist wlan0 scan, and then if it likes an AP for normal WPA case it uses wpa_supplicant so everything is redone. I don't use WEP but I am sure this is also handled by NetworkManager. Since the user may often suspend in one locale and resume in another, this has to be the way to come at it. I don't know the status of NetworkManager-type support in the rootfs-es, presumably Debian has the real thing but how well it integrates with AR6001 I dunno. There was talk about various other NM-alikes over the months but all I ever saw was failure to get iwlist-type results from any UI... but I only check the distro UIs sporadically. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkn2QcACgkQOjLpvpq7dMqEyACdHkoH2yV2LGol/mAPtArkQDtf hnEAn09qxZ8NtQUGYxAk+8JJS5FnSUCR =V901 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
