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kseniya

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Registered: 2012-04-12

Posts: 2

[Solved] wlan0 carrier timed out - AR9285

Good evening, fellows.

I've been reading this forums for some time now, and I've decided to register and to post a problem that probably has a simpler solution than what I'm thinking about right now.

So, I have a quick script for connecting to a WPA wlan0 address (home one), and I keep getting:

dhcpcd[...]: version 5.5.6 starting
dhcpcd[...]: wlan0: waiting for carrier
dhcpcd[...]: timed out

The script is:

#!/bin/bash
ip link set wlan0 down
rm /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-wlan0.lease
rm /var/run/wpa_supplicant/wlan0
iwconfig wlan0 channel auto
ip link set wlan0 up
wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
dhcpcd wlan0
ip addr show wlan0

The strange part comes when I'm trying to run this script, as it has been working flawlessly until yesterday. Do you see anything strange?

lspci:

02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

rc.conf daemons:

DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng netfs sshd crond dbus)

(I've never needed any type of modules or modprobe configuration for this)

lsmod |grep ath:

ath9k          92940   0
ath9k_common   2096    1  ath9k
ath9k_hw       358828  2  ath9k_common,ath9k
ath            15393   3  ath9k_hw,ath9k_common,ath9k
mac80211       396060  1  ath9k
cfg80211       17621   3  mac80211,ath,ath9k

Also, I'm not on a graphical interface, but a console-only view. (aka I have to startx to logon onto xfce, but I rarely do). I'm using 3.3.1-1-ARCH kernel, might this be the same problem as exposed here?

Last edited by kseniya (2012-04-12 21:59:58)

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Re: [Solved] wlan0 carrier timed out - AR9285

If you're on kernel 3.3.1, there are issues with ath9k on that one. Either downgrade the kernel or install compat-wireless.

There are quite a few threads around there already... Can't miss them .

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kseniya

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Registered: 2012-04-12

Posts: 2

Re: [Solved] wlan0 carrier timed out - AR9285

If you're on kernel 3.3.1, there are issues with ath9k on that one. Either downgrade the kernel or install compat-wireless.

There are quite a few threads around there already... Can't miss them .

Yup, I bet the one that I was quoting on the last sentence might be one of those, sorry for the duplicity. However, I'd probably wait until 3.4, as it's now on rc2 -- maybe there we'll have that issue solved on both sides.

Thanks!