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Re: [ipw3945-devel] 2.6.29-wl-36116-g6a982a0: connection loss

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On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 19:57 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 March 2009 19:45:57 Kalle Valo wrote:
> > Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > >> Perhaps the new beacon filtering work [1] is changing more than it
> > >> intended?
> > >
> > > I think it only changed the messages here. Previously, that message
> > > simply wouldn't have been there, instead you'd only have seen the "No
> > > ProbeResp from current AP - assume out of range" thing.
> > 
> > At least I have been using latest wireless-testing with iwl3945 all the time
> > (for example right now) and I haven't noticed any problems.
> > 
> > But your comment makes me think is the "beacon loss" message too
> > verbose. Maybe we should remove it?
> > 
> > BTW, what are the AP settings (beacon interval, DTIM)? Was power save
> > enabled in the driver? If the beacon interval is really long, like 1
> > second, our timer is far from optimal and missing beacon only once
> > might trigger the warning. We should fix that properly at some point.
> > 
> and what is its tsf/last beacon in iwlist wlan0 scan?
> 
> e.g:
> Extra:tsf=0000005a35738ad1
> Extra: Last beacon: 2180ms ago

that would have to be 'iwlist wlan0 scan last' to actually give
something marginally useful.

johannes

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