From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:49067 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755088Ab0JaJiG convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:38:06 -0400 Received: by vws13 with SMTP id 13so2175673vws.19 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 02:38:05 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4CCCE31A.5030608@lwfinger.net> References: <4CCCE31A.5030608@lwfinger.net> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 10:38:03 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Deauthentication for reason 6 using Intel 5300 in 2.6.34 From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= To: Larry Finger Cc: wireless , "Guy, Wey-Yi W" , "Zheng, Jiajia" , ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2010/10/31 Larry Finger : > A user on the openSUSE forum reports that the connection drops frequently when > using 802.11n on a 5300 with a 2.6.34 kernel. It is deauthenticated for reason > 6. He was able to stabilize the connection by disabling N mode. I think he used > "options iwlagn 11n_disable=1 11n_disable50=1". > > Is this a known problem? Would the situation be improved by using > compat-wireless? If so, is "bleeding-edge" needed? It's fu* known problem. Intel doesn't seem to care about users, they have fixed firmware but didn't decide to release it for 2 months. http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2214#c19 -- Rafał