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Re: ath9k - cannot reconnect few meters from the antenna

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On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 04:16:37AM +0530, Tomasz wrote:
> Hi All
> I've spend a lot of time on this issue and I cannot fix it, thus I am asking for
> help
> It looks like that:
> 
> I am running wireless access point based on:
> Ubuntu 10.04  vmlinuz-2.6.32-27-generic
> compat-wireless-2010-12-26
> hostapd 0.7.3 (wpa/wpa2)
> Dnsmasq version 2.52
> Zotac Ion board
> Minipcie card: ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9285 Rev:2
> ath9k driver
> Single antenna (but the behaviour with two antenna is similar)
> 
> Everything works perfectly fine when I am within the few meters from the antenna.
> So the clients are connecting and I get 25 mbps data rates.
> But if more then 10 meters from the antenna strange things are happening.
> - If I am connected to the network and will walk away everything works perfect.
> - But if i disconnect (disassociate) when I am away I cannot connect back. -
> this also means I cannot connect when turning the notebook on :)
> - if I go closer to antenna I am able to connect and while walking away the
> connection seems perfectly stable ...
Hi Tomasz,

Do you have any interference with the oper channel? Please enable debug option
CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG=y in config.mk and modprobe ath9k debug=0x701 and
post dmesg/kern.log 

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Rajkumar
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