Re: ath9k problems

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 04:31:33AM -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Can you provide a long of your wireless-testing run with the group key
> patch applied?

The log I posted already had the group key patch applied. I have an earlier 
log (Sep 18) from before patching, but it doesn't look much different. Do you 
want me to post that?

> Also, please try running wpa_supplicant manually, but
> first be sure to disable Network Manager completely by doing:

Will try that shortly.

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