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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:19:27 +0100
Subject: [ath9k-devel] No probe response from AP after 500ms,
	disconnecting.
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Hi Peter,

On 2010-01-11 4:03 PM, Peter Stuge wrote:
> Since I never saw this behavior in exactly the same kernel with
> another mac80211 driver (ipw2200) the problem must be in the ath9k
> driver or in my "AR5416 MAC/BB Rev:2 AR5133 RF Rev:81" hardware.
ipw2200 is not a mac80211 driver. It probably handles reconnects
internally inside the libipw stack, whereas mac80211 does not do this
and leaves it to user space instead.
The difference in behaviour thus does not necessarily rule out a problem
in the RF environment.

- Felix