Messages in this thread | | | From | Helmut Schaa <> | Subject | Re: ath9k becon loss messages | Date | Mon, 6 Apr 2009 09:14:31 +0200 |
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Am Sonntag, 5. April 2009 schrieb Kalle Valo: > Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> writes: > > >> And besides that, I think one can easily remotely trigger this > >> message and flood the logs. So it should probably _also_ be > >> ratelimited. > > > > normally it prints after 120 seconds: > > > > [ 1078.848434] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 1198.822913] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request > > [ 1318.824931] wlan0: beacon loss from AP 00:11:95:9e:df:f6 - sending probe request
> Then there is something happening in ath9k or your AP which prevents > ath9k from receiving beacons. Try pinging your AP with 100 ms > interval. Do you see anything happening in 120 s intervals?
NetworkManager typically scans every 120 seconds and I can also trigger the messages by a manual scan with iwlist. I did not dig any further but the messages seem to appear right at the end of the scan. Tried with iwlagn and both sw_scan and hw_scan.
Helmut
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