Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f177.google.com ([209.85.212.177]:37169 "EHLO mail-wi0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753186AbbE0TTQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2015 15:19:16 -0400 Received: by wifw1 with SMTP id w1so34771794wif.0 for ; Wed, 27 May 2015 12:19:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55661894.9060007@gmail.com> (sfid-20150527_211922_973607_A37D091C) Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 22:18:44 +0300 From: Nick Dimov MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Emmanuel Grumbach , Dan Williams CC: linux-wireless Subject: Re: packet loss, disconnects and possible bug in iwlwifi References: <55605637.1080503@gmail.com> <55650565.6020303@gmail.com> <1432742132.15971.29.camel@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, It looks the problem on 2.4Ghz is different - I get packet loss sometimes but there are no disconnects, no wpa_supplicant entries in syslog at all. Now it runs great and is connected at 300mbps. I can not reproduce the packet loss on 2.4Ghz anymore. Does this help? How to update the regulatory database? On 27.05.2015 21:34, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Dan Williams wrote: >> On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 02:44 +0300, Nick Dimov wrote: >>> Hello, >>> thank you for your response. I attach the full syslog since the last >>> boot which contains some disconnects. I enabled debug mode for >>> wpa_supplicant with -dd option (let me know if you need anything else). >>> >>> I also tried connecting directly, i.e. without NetworkManager but >>> manually with wpa_supplicant and I still get disconnects, howvever >>> wpa_supplicant gives different logs with different drivers. Please, see >>> the file wifi.log (you can see there the driver i used in >>> wpa_supplicant, that log doesn't have the debug activated but let me >>> know if you need that too) >> So if NM isn't involved in your later runs (and it's not, looking at the >> logs), then I'm not sure what the issue could be except something in the >> driver. >> >> mai 27 02:31:54 nick-G55VW wpa_supplicant[1565]: nl80211: Event message >> available >> mai 27 02:31:54 nick-G55VW wpa_supplicant[1565]: nl80211: Drv Event 20 >> (NL80211_CMD_DEL_STATION) received for wlan5 >> mai 27 02:31:54 nick-G55VW wpa_supplicant[1565]: nl80211: Delete station >> d8:50:e6:da:1d:b4 >> mai 27 02:31:54 nick-G55VW kernel: wlan5: deauthenticating from >> d8:50:e6:da:1d:b4 by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING) >> >> I don't see anything interesting around those lines, so I guess its up >> to Emmanuel now... the tracing he requests would be good to get. >> > I suspect a regulatory problem. This is why I asked what was the > channel used on 2.4GHz. On 5.2GHz we have seen bugs happening because > of the regulatory database being ancient on Ubuntu. 2.4GHz should rule > these problems out, unless we are talking about channel 12 and up or > something like that.