Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:43399 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755893AbYC0TRy (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:17:54 -0400 From: Helge Deller To: Bob Copeland Subject: Re: ath5k aborts wireless connections Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:17:49 +0100 Cc: Nick Kossifidis , "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, mcgrof@gmail.com References: <200803221129.59090.deller@gmx.de> <200803252111.05726.deller@gmx.de> <20080327115125.GA10265@hash.localnet> In-Reply-To: <20080327115125.GA10265@hash.localnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200803272017.50126.deller@gmx.de> (sfid-20080327_191758_316136_B0FD4B0D) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thursday 27 March 2008, Bob Copeland wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:11:05PM +0100, Helge Deller wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Bob Copeland wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Nick Kossifidis wrote: > > > > Hello ppl, sory for the delay ;-) > > > > > > > > Are you using encryption ? I haven't got such errors on my tests (it > > > > might be that my setup is really simple) so far... > > > > > > I can't speak for Helge, but in my case yes - WPA-TKIP. > > > > Same here. WPA-PSK & TKIP. > > So, I turned off encryption here and did not get any "invalid Michael > MIC" messages while doing a large apt-get upgrade overnight. I do get > random pauses but nothing else in my dmesg. > > Helge, can you confirm disabling encryption makes the reset go away? Yes, I can confirm this. Without encryption everything worked pretty OK. I only faced one very small hickup, but ath5k reconnected immediately again, so I don't think this is a real problem: wlan1: authenticated wlan1: associate with AP 00:50:18:3b:2b:04 wlan1: RX AssocResp from 00:50:18:3b:2b:04 (capab=0x461 status=0 aid=1) wlan1: associated wlan1: No ProbeResp from current AP 00:50:18:3b:2b:04 - assume out of range wlan1: Initial auth_alg=0 wlan1: authenticate with AP 00:50:18:3b:2b:04 wlan1: RX authentication from 00:50:18:3b:2b:04 (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0) wlan1: authenticated Helge