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Re: [Fwd: Re: Trouble Associating with ath5k on AR5212]

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On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Will Keaney <keaneyw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hmm, you should be seeing association requests in any case.  How are
>> you starting the wireless network?  Can you try setting the -dd option
>> to wpa_supplicant?
>>
> I'm starting it by modprobing ath5k or ath_pci, depending on what needs
> to be tested.  udev calls Gentoo's init script for the interface that's
> created, which starts wpa_supplicant.  I can add debugging flags as well.

Ok, please do and post the log.

> When testing with the guest wireless at work today, I got the attached
> error in dmesg.  I only got it once, and haven't been able to reproduce
> it, but thought it might be of interest.

Very much so, thanks for the report (probably has no bearing on your case,
but this is the first example since we added more debugging).

> [ 6260.056213] Hardware name: 6459CTO
> [ 6260.056218] invalid hw_rix: 1a

0x1a is ATH5K_RATE_CODE_2M, certainly a valid rate for 2 GHz.. something's
broken.  This is pretty rare though so I think it is some sort of race
condition when switching over to 5 GHz.

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
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