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Re: ath9k and power management

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Davide Pesavento <davidepesa@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I'm running a 2.6.29-wl kernel, using ath9k and wpa_supplicant 0.6.9
> (with -Dnl80211).
> Enabling power management when connected (i.e. 'iwconfig wlan0 power
> on'), causes the currently established connection to break and the
> machine is no longer able to reconnect to the AP.

Try with a timeout, for example three seconds:

iwconfig wlan0 power timeout 3

It might be that ath9k doesn't work when timeout is zero (which 'power
on' effectively does). You need a fairly new wireless-tools to set the
timeout, older versions had a bug with that.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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