From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luis R. Rodriguez Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:52:55 -0800 Subject: [ath9k-devel] Constant AP dropout -LINKS In-Reply-To: <49249490.6090002@astronomicalresearchaustralia.org> References: <20081119174129.GA14050@parabola.pavlovmedia.corp> <1227117298.4992.2.camel@jm-desktop> <20081119175817.GA3131@parabola.pavlovmedia.corp> <49249490.6090002@astronomicalresearchaustralia.org> Message-ID: <20081120035255.GJ5900@tesla> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org 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