[ath9k-devel] Constant AP dropout -LINKS

[Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 02:34:56PM -0800, Brian wrote:
> Tyler,
> 1)
> During an email conversation with Luis he provided me with a whole
> series of links to good stuff, see below
> One of which applies to Networkmanager
> 
> 2) on 4/11/08 Luis posted a patch to this list which may be applicable.
> I used it and it worked.
> 
> 3) During my testing I found that using WPA_GUI helped.
> This may not apply to all but I found that my link would keep dropping
> out, because it got a deathentication request. This turned out to be a
> wrong PSK key. I hasten to add that my key was not put in wrong, it just
> was not accepted. The way I got out of it was to use wpa_gui to re-input
> the key.
> 
> 4) All the above is now on a Suse 11.0 with the git wireless kernel
>  2.6.28-rc5-wl #10 SMP
> Again this may only apply to SUSE but the new kernel seems to use a
> different .conf file. It no longer uses the the one in
> /etc/wpa_supplicant but builds its own in /etc.
> In my case it creates /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> 
> I have not tracked down yet exactly how it does this or where it gets
> its info from to build the file. Working on it:)
> 
> HTH
> Brian
> 
> 
> See this to find out how to disable NetworkManager and wpa_supplicant
> (which NM runs):
> 
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/Reporting_bugs
> 
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/git-guide
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation
> 
> 
> Just a note you should install CRDA now that you are on 2.6.28
> 
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA
> 
> Also get iw:
> 
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw
> 
> 
> You may want to subscribe to the entire wiki, I just updated the git
> guide yesterday with new found fun stuff. You can subscribe to all pages
> by going to:
> 
> http://wireless.kernel.org/welcome?action=userprefs&sub=notification
> 
> https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel

So we had over 40 patches pending which John just merged today. You
can do a git pull or wait for compat-wireless to get updated.

  Luis