On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 15:54, Davide Pesavento <davidepesa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?
>
Nevermind, I guess I need the beta version... :-)
# iwconfig wlan0 power timeout 3
Error for wireless request "Set Power Management" (8B2C) :
invalid argument "3".
Regards,
Davide
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