Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.218.169]:39582 "EHLO mail-bw0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752083AbZC0Omf (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:42:35 -0400 Received: by bwz17 with SMTP id 17so1030088bwz.37 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:42:31 -0700 (PDT) To: Davide Pesavento Cc: linux-wireless Subject: Re: ath9k and power management References: <2da21fe50903270727m7b7007ctaa846aea61902436@mail.gmail.com> From: Kalle Valo Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:42:29 +0200 In-Reply-To: <2da21fe50903270727m7b7007ctaa846aea61902436@mail.gmail.com> (Davide Pesavento's message of "Fri\, 27 Mar 2009 15\:27\:22 +0100") Message-ID: <87ljqr58oa.fsf@litku.valot.fi> (sfid-20090327_154237_636270_85D8F223) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- Kalle Valo