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Re: ath9k and power management

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On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 15:42, Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>

What do you mean by "fairly new"? I have wireless-tools version 29
installed, which is the latest stable. Do I need to use version 30
beta?

Thanks,
Davide
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