From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:34:56 +1000 Subject: [ath9k-devel] Constant AP dropout -LINKS In-Reply-To: <20081119175817.GA3131@parabola.pavlovmedia.corp> References: <20081119174129.GA14050@parabola.pavlovmedia.corp> <1227117298.4992.2.camel@jm-desktop> <20081119175817.GA3131@parabola.pavlovmedia.corp> Message-ID: <49249490.6090002@astronomicalresearchaustralia.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.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 >> >> >