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SubjectRe: [Bug #14267] Disassociating atheros wlan
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:47:03 +0100
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 09:38 -0800, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
>
> > I did a bisect yesterday on this, and the results
> > seemed to have worked over here by reverting:
> >
> > 75e6c3b72b3ab01c47629f3fbd0fed4e6550bf3a
> > cfg80211: lower dynamic PS timeout to 100ms
> >
> > if Kristoffer can try reverting this one
> > to see, then we can go from there.
>
> So that just means the driver is broken. Please run
>
> iwconfig wlan0 power off
>
> to fix it then. And the patch below will disable it by default since
> it's broken.
>
> johannes
>
> --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c 2009-11-22 11:44:41.000000000 +0100
> +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c 2009-11-22 11:45:26.000000000 +0100
> @@ -1893,6 +1893,8 @@ void ath_set_hw_capab(struct ath_softc *
> BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) |
> BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT);
>
> + hw->wiphy->ps_default = false;
> +
> hw->queues = 4;
> hw->max_rates = 4;
> hw->channel_change_time = 5000;
>
>

Johannes, am I correct in thinking that this also solves the decreased signal strength
issue in bug http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13807 ?


--
Kristoffer Ericson <kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com>


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