Hello! I've detected a rather strange issue with ath5k AP mode. Setup: We've got two WiFi-capable mobile phones in the household, one is an iPhone 3G and the other is a Samsung GT-S8000 Jét. We have several computers (iwl2100, ath5k) which work quite well with the ath5k AP (apart from achieving rather low throughput with the ath5k client). The AP is an i686-based PC server with an ath5k card and runs a 2.6.31-rc6-wl (wireless-testing-git) kernel with an uptime of 78 days right now. The wlan0 iface uptime was about the same as the kernel. Symptoms: The iPhone did manage to detect all WiFi networks in the vicinity, it could detect but it was unable to join my ath5k-based network. I triple checked every setting so I'm sure there was no problem with those. The S8000 Jét has always (apparenty) aborted it's WiFi search operation instantly reporting that it could not find any WiFi network although I do know that there are many of them in the vicinity. I'm not used to bother the AP server too often so at first I thought the phone may be faulty, until I tried searching for WiFi networks on the street away from home and voilá, suddenly it has found lots of networks. Then I had the idea to shut down the ath5k wlan0 interface at home and see what happens. After doing that the S8000 Jét was able to search for and find all nearby WiFi networks instantly! Then I started wlan0 again. From then on the iPhone was able to associate and DHCP QUERY on the ath5k network. The Jét can also detect it now but still cannot associate. Unfortunately it's software is ridiculously stupid at some places and this includes WiFi connection management so it might be a problem with the phone that I still cannot connect. I'm still working on that. Anyway, I thought an ath5k AP blocking a client from seeing any other WiFi network is strange enough to report here... Regards, Sab -- 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
