Subject: Re: 2.6.29+ ath5k connect disconnect cycles?
From: Soeren Sonnenburg <sonne@debian.org>
To: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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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,
> >=20
> > does anyone else observer strange connect disconnect cycles with ath5k?
> > I have two different notebooks here one with an AR5414 and one with som=
e
> > 2424 (?) chipset both having the same problems to connect...
> >=20
> > Soeren
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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
--=20
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