[ath9k-devel] ar9271 SIOCSIFFLAGS error and authentication timeout

[Cedric Sodhi <manday@gmx.net>]

I will not quote all the replies. I will just reply:

Peter:

Thanks for your reply. I tried rebooting, AC-off etc a dozen times by
now. Basically, every time when I tried a new kernel. The problem did
not change.

Jouni:

Thanks for the clue, it's good to know what's going on. No, the computer
(which is a desktop station) does not have any controls to trigger
Wireless. Besides, it is an external USB card

TL-WN721N (PS: This device is said to be supported according to
wireless.kernel.org)

which would not be affected by such a "hard-off" button. It does have a
little button on the side of it which is called QSS (some security
feature I don't know anything about). I pressed it repeatedly, also
worrying that it could be the cause, but it did not have any effects.

I installed rfkill and when I run "rfkill list", the tool returns that
"Soft blocked: no; Hard blocked: no".

Jouni:

So far I had GPIO disabled in the kernel. I enabled it with the
suboptions

CONFIG_GPIO_BASIC_MNIO
CONFIG_GPIO_SCM

(buest guess) but it had no effect.