[ath9k-devel] Constant AP dropout -LINKS

[Brian <bnc@astronomicalresearchaustralia.org>]

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












Tyler W. Mills wrote:
> I'm only using NetworkManager, to initiate and reconnect after it drops
> out.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:54:58AM -0600, Jouni Malinen wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 09:41 -0800, Tyler W. Mills wrote:
>>> wlan0: associated
>>> wlan0: disassociating by local choice (reason=3)
>>> I get this every few minutes while associated with my AP.
>>>
>>> WPA2/TKIP encryption, this has only started happening with the latest
>>> kernel in F10.
>> Are you using wpa_supplicant as the supplicant? Do you start it
>> manually? Do you have NetworkManager running? If yes to all these, try
>> stopping NetworkManager.. It seems to really like to keep the connection
>> down if the connection was not initiated by it.
>>
>> - Jouni
>>
>>
>