On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Howard Chu <hyc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > With the 2.6.27-rc6 kernel I find that my wireless connection dies after a > few minutes. Using nm-applet I have to disable wireless and re-enable it > before I can re-establish a session (using WPA). Yeah, you need this patch: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=122163541519736&w=2 > I tried pulling the wireless-testing branch and found it behaved strangely > as well - within about 30 seconds of idle time it would die. But, it would > usually immediately begin to reconnect (and succeed). My logs were full of > "ForceXPAon: 0" messages which I found were from ath9_hw_reset(), which were > all being called from set_channel, during the scan that took place when the > card was not associated with the AP. It typically occurred every 30-35 > seconds. I'm sure the ath9k guys can be more informative about what 'ForceXPAon: 0' is all about, but wireless-testing is pretty outdated now. Strange, too, because it seems that even Linus' tree has newer code than wireless-testing. > I also found that if I kept a ping session to my wifi router running, then > the wireless connection would not die, it would operate normally. > > It seems that it all worked fine in 2.6.27-rc4... Yeah, did a git-bisect on the issue. Again, see the above link to get the patch for it. :) - Steven -- 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
