[ath9k-devel] ath9k: corrupt frames forwarded to mac80211 as decrypted

[Tor Krill <tor@excito.com>]

On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 14:08 -0400, Ben Gamari wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:41:36 +0200, Tor Krill <tor@excito.com> wrote:
> > This patch, in modified form went into wireless-testing and linux-next a
> > few days ago
> > 
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git;a=commit;h=3a37495268ab45507b4cab9d4cb18c5496ab7a10
> > 
> > And it indeed fixed a lot of our issues :). Unfortunately we still
> > experience failures with ath9k in AP mode with these symptoms.
> > 
> > We lose connectivity on STA side, we still seems to be associated but
> > are unable to transfer any data. Any reconnection fails.
> > 
> 
> If I'm not mistaken, I seem to see the same type of behavior on this
> side. I have a AR5008s in both the STA and AP. After a few hours or so
> of association the suddenly refuses to send or recieve, yet remains
> associated. Thereafter, all further association attempts timeout until
> the driver is reloaded (rmmod/insmod) on the STA. After reloading, I
> will be able to reassociate and things will work fine for a few more
> hours.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is precisely the same issue that you're
> experiencing (I always pinned this on the STA since reloading the driver
> seems to reset things) but I felt the similarities were too striking not
> to say something. I'd be happy to provide any debugging information
> necessary.

Yes, could it perhaps be that you experience the same problem, bug, as
we do but in the STA instead? (Since it also run ath9k).

/Tor