Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.29+ ath5k connect disconnect cycles? | From | Soeren Sonnenburg <> | Date | Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:37:33 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 16:00 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 10:55 +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > does anyone else observer strange connect disconnect cycles with ath5k? > > I have two different notebooks here one with an AR5414 and one with some > > 2424 (?) chipset both having the same problems to connect... > > > > Soeren > > I use latest -git of wireless-testing, and AR2425. > Thanks to hard work of ath5k developers, it works better and better. > Yet phy seems to die when loaded with traffic, but its reset brings is > back alive. ath5k does a reset every 10 seconds. > > If you use WPA, then you might have bigger problems, I mean, during the > period when phy is dead, AP might ask for group rekey, but ath5k won't > hear this, and continue using old keys. This causes much longer delays, > and sometimes reconnect cycles you see.
Unfortunately, this happened with a open network. But YMMV as it seems to work very reliably in other locations (even with WPA)... with both the 2425 and 5414 chipset.
Soeren -- For the one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic. -- Arthur C. Clarke, 1962 [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |