Return-path: Received: from mail-ob0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:58466 "EHLO mail-ob0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754011AbaJVJKY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2014 05:10:24 -0400 Received: by mail-ob0-f174.google.com with SMTP id uz6so913367obc.5 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 02:10:24 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1413921415.3763081.181696749.20A0A495@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1413463736.1316541.179720977.4FD32021@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1413510814.22769.6.camel@dcbw.local> <1413751717.2510219.180809145.0E693C29@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1413783023.2710583.180921653.10DFFCEE@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1413789724.3063896.180943829.3F15F453@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1413833365.2949853.181221645.22D54845@webmail.messagingengine.com> <54461740.5000903@openwrt.org> <1413879792.3500640.181427549.198E9452@webmail.messagingengine.com> <54461AEF.7040304@openwrt.org> <54463CE9.3060400@gmail.com> <1413921415.3763081.181696749.20A0A495@webmail.messagingengine.com> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:10:24 +0300 Message-ID: (sfid-20141022_111034_707555_E4F4F565) Subject: Re: iwlwifi: Reason 7 periodic disconnect From: Emmanuel Grumbach To: =?UTF-8?Q?Lauren=C8=9Biu_Nicola?= Cc: poma , Felix Fietkau , Dan Williams , linux-wireless Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Laurențiu Nicola wrote: > Yep! `scb_timeout` is 60 on my router. > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014, at 14:00, poma wrote: >> On 21.10.2014 10:35, Felix Fietkau wrote: >> > On 2014-10-21 10:23, Laurențiu Nicola wrote: >> >> It's an ASUS RT-N66U running NEWD-2/K3X from r24160. >> > This is a Broadcom based device, so it should behave in the same way as >> > other APs/Routers running the Broadcom drivers. >> > The driver should only send Reason 7 when receiving a PS-Poll, BlockAck, >> > BlockAckReq or Action frame from a station that's not associated, so >> > probably it has already kicked out your iwlwifi client earlier. Not sure >> > why that doesn't show up in the log though. >> > >> >> Whether this might refer to the Station Control Block Timeout value >> >> http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wl#scb_timeout >> ... >> scb_timeout >> >> AP only: inactivity timeout value for authenticated stas >> Actually, mac80211 should be probing the AP every 30 seconds but a beacon might abort the probe... Can you try something like this: diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c index 75df184..c9db7cf 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c @@ -3295,7 +3295,8 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_mgmt_beacon(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, if (ifmgd->flags & IEEE80211_STA_CONNECTION_POLL) { mlme_dbg_ratelimited(sdata, "cancelling AP probe due to a received beacon\n"); - ieee80211_reset_ap_probe(sdata); + pr_err("Not cancelling the probe to make sure the AP hears us from time to time\n"); + //ieee80211_reset_ap_probe(sdata); } /* >> >> poma >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" >> in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html