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 -- Rajkumar -- 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