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From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
To: David Gilman <dgilman@gilslotd.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>,
	Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: Troubleshooting mwl8k driver issue
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:01:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160621080123.GV20238@wantstofly.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160621003630.GA39401@dar.local>

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 07:36:30PM -0500, David Gilman wrote:

> > Nothing in here seems particularly bad.  So whatever the problem is,
> > I don't think it can be diagnosed from these messages alone.
> > 
> > I went back to the email thread, and it seems that the problem is that
> > you're trying to run the card in AP mode but no traffic is making it
> > through?  Is AP association working at all, or is that failing too?
> 
> The mwl8k is in AP mode and it gets associated just fine.  It'll work
> for five or so minutes and then you'll get the disconnect and the log
> messages in the earlier emails.  And it only happens with one of my
> wireless devices - the other one will browse all day with a stable
> connection to the mwl8k router.
> 
> Back in the OpenWRT issue a few more people have stuck their heads in
> to say they're also seeing the same issue.
> 
> https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/21284

The only thing the log tells me is that this disconnect happens
voluntarily, so I see nothing wrong from just those log messages.
Can you run a sniffer to see what happens on the air when this
disconnect occurs, or increase hostapd verbosity/debugging somehow?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-21  8:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-04  3:54 Troubleshooting mwl8k driver issue David Gilman
2016-06-06  6:51 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2016-06-10  4:02   ` David Gilman
2016-06-17 19:43     ` David Gilman
2016-06-18  8:48       ` Lennert Buytenhek
2016-06-21  0:36         ` David Gilman
2016-06-21  8:01           ` Lennert Buytenhek [this message]
2016-07-03  6:13             ` David Gilman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-05-06  7:21 Menion

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