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. > Ok, I installed wireless-tools 30-pre8 and tried with a timeout. The results are more or less the same as before... < iwconfig wlan0 power timeout 3 > [ 2315.293198] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:1b:2f:58:30:76 - sending probe request [ 2321.296532] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:1b:2f:58:30:76 - sending probe request [ 2327.299864] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:1b:2f:58:30:76 - sending probe request [ 2333.303208] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:1b:2f:58:30:76 - sending probe request [ 2335.303190] wlan0: no probe response from AP 00:1b:2f:58:30:76 - disassociating [ 2335.303431] phy0: Removed STA 00:1b:2f:58:30:76 [ 2335.333248] phy0: Destroyed STA 00:1b:2f:58:30:76 [ 2388.465095] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 2388.669843] wlan0: deauthenticating by local choice (reason=3) [ 2388.840995] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready < manual restart of wpa_supplicant > [ 2392.979891] wlan0: dropped data frame to not associated station 00:00:00:00:00:00 [ 2403.113236] wlan0: dropped data frame to not associated station 00:00:00:00:00:00 [ 2403.705107] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1b:2f:58:30:76 [ 2403.707389] wlan0: authenticated [ 2403.707395] wlan0: associate with AP 00:1b:2f:58:30:76 [ 2403.710568] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:1b:2f:58:30:76 (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1) [ 2403.710574] wlan0: associated [ 2403.710603] phy0: Allocated STA 00:1b:2f:58:30:76 [ 2403.710622] phy0: Inserted STA 00:1b:2f:58:30:76 [ 2403.710628] wmaster0: WMM queue=2 aci=0 acm=0 aifs=3 cWmin=15 cWmax=1023 txop=0 [ 2403.710643] wmaster0: WMM queue=3 aci=1 acm=0 aifs=7 cWmin=15 cWmax=1023 txop=0 [ 2403.710656] wmaster0: WMM queue=1 aci=2 acm=0 aifs=2 cWmin=7 cWmax=15 txop=94 [ 2403.710668] wmaster0: WMM queue=0 aci=3 acm=0 aifs=2 cWmin=3 cWmax=7 txop=47 [ 2403.710685] wlan0: switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00:1b:2f:58:30:76) [ 2403.710690] wlan0: switched to short slot time (BSSID=00:1b:2f:58:30:76) [ 2403.711356] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready [ 2408.535506] ath9k: rx failed to go idle in 10 ms RXSM=0xdeadbeef [ 2414.393163] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present [ 2421.536523] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:1b:2f:58:30:76 - sending probe request [ 2427.539851] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:1b:2f:58:30:76 - sending probe request [ 2433.543195] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:1b:2f:58:30:76 - sending probe request [ 2439.546535] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:1b:2f:58:30:76 - sending probe request [ 2451.413267] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:1b:2f:58:30:76 - sending probe request [ 2461.416589] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:1b:2f:58:30:76 - sending probe request [ 2467.419835] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:1b:2f:58:30:76 - sending probe request [...] Regards, Davide -- 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
