Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.218.169]:46122 "EHLO mail-bw0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751837AbZC0OzM (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:55:12 -0400 Received: by bwz17 with SMTP id 17so1035386bwz.37 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:55:09 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87ljqr58oa.fsf@litku.valot.fi> References: <2da21fe50903270727m7b7007ctaa846aea61902436@mail.gmail.com> <87ljqr58oa.fsf@litku.valot.fi> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:54:54 +0100 Message-ID: <2da21fe50903270754i26c8be08i206b12a268214f56@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20090327_155517_266573_4A7C319B) Subject: Re: ath9k and power management From: Davide Pesavento To: Kalle Valo Cc: linux-wireless Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 15:42, Kalle Valo wrote: > Davide Pesavento writes: > >> I'm running a 2.6.29-wl kernel, using ath9k and wpa_supplicant 0.6.9 >> (with -Dnl80211). >> Enabling power management when connected (i.e. 'iwconfig wlan0 power >> on'), causes the currently established connection to break and the >> machine is no longer able to reconnect to the AP. > > Try with a timeout, for example three seconds: > > iwconfig wlan0 power timeout 3 > > It might be that ath9k doesn't work when timeout is zero (which 'power > on' effectively does). You need a fairly new wireless-tools to set the > timeout, older versions had a bug with that. > What do you mean by "fairly new"? I have wireless-tools version 29 installed, which is the latest stable. Do I need to use version 30 beta? Thanks, Davide