Re: ath9k problems

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:09 AM, Howard Chu<hyc@symas.com>  wrote:
>> >  For example - I added DPRINTFs to all the places that called ath9_hw_reset()
>> >  to see why the ForceXPAon message was occurring so often, and got the
>> >  attached log. I note that ForceXPAon doesn't occur on every call to
>> >  hw_reset, and sometimes there are repeated identical calls to set the
>> >  channel (e.g. at 22:06:36 in the log).
>> >
>> >  It associates successfully with my AP on channel 8, but shortly thereafter
>> >  loses the association, scans again, and starts over again, ad nauseam. This
>> >  behavior was made even worse when I upgraded my freeradius server (was
>> >  authenticating with WPA EAP/PEAP) and configured TLS session caching - there
>> >  seems to be a bug in freeradius there so subsequent reassociation attempts
>> >  would always fail until I turned off session caching. (Haven't had time to
>> >  chase that down yet.)
>
> Howard, did you apply the pending group key patch yet?

Yes, the patch didn't improve the situation on my wireless-testing build. It 
works fine on my 2.6.27-rc6 build though.

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