iwlwifi losing AP...

iwlwifi losing AP...

[Christopher Bills]

i'm using iwlwifi 1.0.0-1 on a lenovo thinkpad x61, with the Intel
4965AGN wireless card. I'm using kernel 2.6.22.2 with mac80211 v8.0.2
and from time to time i lose my connection to my Belkin (802.11b)
router. this can often be remedied by issuing the 'iwconfig wlan0
essid <ssid>' command, but is rather irritating.

is this a known issue, and if so, is there some sort of work-around? i
tried using mac80211 v9.0.4 but my kernel will not compile with that,
if that is known to fix it.

thanks in advance,

chris

Re: iwlwifi losing AP...

[ian]

Christopher Bills wrote:
> i'm using iwlwifi 1.0.0-1 on a lenovo thinkpad x61, with the Intel
> 4965AGN wireless card. I'm using kernel 2.6.22.2 with mac80211 v8.0.2
> and from time to time i lose my connection to my Belkin (802.11b)

We are probably going to need more debug information.dmesg (with debug turned on)
when this happens?

Personally I loose connection very rarely too(once every few days),
haven't investigated further. Get a no PropeResp message, which should indicate
that the connection was idle for two seconds, and the AP didn't respond to the probe?
(guess upping IWL_ACTIVE_DWELL_TIME_24 might help in this situation)

> router. this can often be remedied by issuing the 'iwconfig wlan0
> essid <ssid>' command, but is rather irritating.
> 
> is this a known issue, and if so, is there some sort of work-around? i
> tried using mac80211 v9.0.4 but my kernel will not compile with that,
> if that is known to fix it.

There is a fix or two, between the versions, this problem used to be more common,
so I can't say it wont help. I'm using wireless-dev's mac80211.

> 
> thanks in advance,
> 
> chris
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