[ath9k-devel] No probe response from AP after 500ms, disconnecting.

From: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org
Subject: [ath9k-devel] No probe response from AP after 500ms, disconnecting.
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:39:57 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19277.25525.360201.408454@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100111164903.9039.qmail@stuge.se>

Peter Stuge wrote:
> I've seen the problem in every RF environment I've visited with this
> card. Most are in cities small and large, but one is in an office on
> the outskirts of a small city, where the only wifi to be seen is the
> two closest of the six-or-so WAP54 access points that we have set up
> throughout the adjacent buildings. There's very little traffic in
> that network and I still see disconnects.
> 
> In any case I would love to debug this from the bottom and up. Any
> pointers on registers and settings that may be useful too look into,
> in particular if some features of the hardware are not yet supported
> by the driver, would be most welcome.

Can you upgrade to the latest wireless-testing kernel ?
RX errors can be seen in the 'recv' debugfs file.
The contents of 'rcstat' and 'interrupt' would also be useful.

For more information: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k/debug

Sujith