[ath9k-devel] ar9271 SIOCSIFFLAGS error and authentication timeout

[Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>]

On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 01:15 -0800, Cedric Sodhi wrote:
> PS, if that matters: When I observe the ERFKILL status with rfkill I get
> a
> 
> idx 0 type 1 op 2 soft 0 hard 0
> idx 0 type 1 op 2 soft 0 hard 0
> 
> every time I restart /etc/init.d/net.wlan1.

Those lines are saying that WLAN (type 1) was changes (op 2) to having
both soft and hard block off. There would need to be a case where either
the soft or the hard block value would change to 1 for ERFKILL to be
indicated.

Could you please run "rfkill event" while injected the card and keep it
running until you see the first ERFKILL? I would like to see at which
point soft/hard block is enabled and what may have happened just before
that..

> Attached is a log of dmesg. If you want me to enable certain DEBUG
> options and grab another one, please say so. I've just read that certain
> DEBUG options might cause problems so I disabled them all, to be
> careful.

This looks like a separate issue. For some reason, the card is either
not transmitting or receiving frames when trying to authenticate. If you
can reproduce this easily, it would be interesting to see a wireless
capture log (if you have another device that could run in monitor mode)
to confirm whether the authentication frames are indeed transmitted.

- Jouni