We are having serious problems with v5.5.10 with 5GHz XM hardware and have
decided this firmware is not production ready. We using *v5.5.10 only for
links that require UNII-1* frequencies and avoiding in all other
situations. There is some sort of a bug with scanning for available
networks, so if your area has few networks, you might observe different
behavior.

http://community.ubnt.com/t5/Installation-Troubleshooting/v5-5-10-major-bug-no-SSIDs-in-scan-print-scanning-info-buffer/m-p/1072997#U1072997

*AirOS v5.5.10 is not production ready!*

Ubiquiti, it appears you have a major bug and need to revoke the release,
remove from website, until you get this fixed.



We have now had 3 clients -- 2 Nanobridges and 1 Rocket M5 -- disconnect
from their AP with the same behavior: NO SSIDs appear in scan list.
Downgrade to v5.5.8, no changes to config, radio once against sees SSID and
connects perfectly.



*Workaround: Frequency Scan List*

I cannot fully confirm this, but it appears, v5.5.10 plus frequency scan
list has this problem less. It also might be that this pares down the
amount of data coming from the atheros driver (by not scanning all
frequencies), and scan list doesn't actually fix the issue, just reduces
the scan data to something that doesn't break the radio.





*iwlist ath0 scan -- print_scanning_info: buffer too large(65535) for
realocating*

In our most recent incident, I was able to SSH into the failed v5.5.10 STA

XM.v5.5.10# iwlist ath0 scan
print_scanning_info: buffer too large(65535) for realocating

XM.v5.5.10# wlanconfig ath0 list scan
ioctl[unknown???]: Argument list too long
wlanconfig: unable to get scan results



We are running now with a frequency scan list (cannot downgrade this radio)
and both iwlist and wlanconfig commands are working properly.



More details:

APs: Problem happens with both Nanostation M5 APs and PowerBridge-M5 APs

  - Seen with AP on v5.5.10

  - Seen with AP on v5.5.8

STAs: Problem observed with NB-22-M5 and Rocket-M5

DFS: Problem observed on both DFS and non-DFS frequencies (5805)



Most recent incident, Rocket was working fine for a few days, suddenly
died. It rebooted in the process (only 2min uptime when I got to it). Let
sit 10min, rebooted, made no difference, gave buffer too larger error no
matter how many reboots. Only enabling scan list patched it.


Colin
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telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it
meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
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