On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 08:00:19AM +0300, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote: > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Jonathan McDowell <noodles@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I have an Intel 7260 that fails to associate correctly in 802.11n mode. > > Unfortunately I don't have any access to the AP in question, but I > > believe it is an ASUS based device. This is on the 5GHz band; there is > > some odd configuration with the router that results in the driver > > refusing to associate on the 2.4GHz setup with the following error: > > > > [ 507.495986] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: AP 30:00:da:b1:da:d0 beacon interval is 7, refusing due to firmware bug! > > Ok - this is an interesting settings. > I'll check with our firmware team what can be done here, but beacon > interval=7 is really insane. I can't find what the spec defines as > legal values right now. I wouldn't rule out the person who configured the AP having made a mistake; the MAC address is a custom one so they may have tweaked other settings too. However my phone (running Android) can connect to the 2.4GHz AP just fine and I think the other users of the AP are running Macs without problems. > > On the 5GHz band the driver attempts to associate, but never seems to > > actually fully associate to the point of getting an IP. If I pass the > > 11n_disable=1 parameter to the driver then things work fine. > > > This is surprising - can you share your logs? The log below is without the 11n_disable flag set - if it helps I can provide the log of when it works too. > > I've put a debug log of the failure to associate (kernel 3.14 but this > > has happened with all the version I've tried) up at: > > > > http://the.earth.li/~noodles/iwlwifi-fail.log > > > > I can't access: Access forbidden. Sorry, fixed. > > If there is more information I should be providing please let me know. > > I'm sure it's related to the AP in question as I've had successful 11n > > associations with other setups, but it's annoying to have to explicitly > > disable 11n when in this location and then not in others. J. -- /-\ | Where's your fishing rod, lawn |@/ Debian GNU/Linux Developer | ornament? \- | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
