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rjrjr

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Registered: 2010-03-22

Posts: 42

Ath9k driver drops connection periodically

Title pretty much explains it. Basically, I'm wondering what this dmesg output means:

No probe response from AP 00:1c:f0:53:e6:d5 after 500ms, disconnecting.
cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
wlan0: authenticate with 00:1c:f0:53:e6:d5 (try 1)
wlan0: authenticated
wlan0: associate with 00:1c:f0:53:e6:d5 (try 1)
wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:1c:f0:53:e6:d5 (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)
wlan0: associated
wlan0: deauthenticating from 00:1c:f0:53:e6:d5 by local choice (reason=3)
cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
sky2 0000:01:00.0: eth0: disabling interface
sky2 0000:01:00.0: eth0: enabling interface
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

And is it a result of me misconfiguring things or just a bug? Ath9k has made a lot of progress recently. Now I can generally connect on resume without having to modprobe the driver, but connection reliability is still an issue.

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Re: Ath9k driver drops connection periodically

Does running compat-wireless improve the situation any? That way you can upgrade your wireless stack but stick with the same kernel.

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rjrjr

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Registered: 2010-03-22

Posts: 42

Re: Ath9k driver drops connection periodically

Installing it now. I'll give it a go and post the results.

[EDIT] Hmmm, building fails using yaourt, also looks like the aur version is out of date. I'll try and build the package from kernel.org.

Last edited by rjrjr (2011-01-18 18:14:51)

cAPSLOCK

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Registered: 2011-01-20

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Re: Ath9k driver drops connection periodically

As a matter of fact compat-wireless-patched-daily does (well DID) fix the problems.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41485

I have also had problems with ath9k (Asus 1005PEB) much like the OP mentions.  Terrible connection reliability.

The kicker was when I tried a program I use via wine, in VirtualBox running XP instead.  The program is the Full Tilt poker client.  It drops connection constantly. The reliability issues continued identically in VBox just like when the client was run in wine.

The above package fixes it.  Then each time the kernel gets updates, it re-breaks needing a fresh install of the above package.

Now, however the above package doesn't work.  Even if I update the PKGBUILD to use the latest daily file.

I am curious if this is more common on x86_64.

Annoying.

Last edited by cAPSLOCK (2011-02-02 10:24:51)

DarksideEE7

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From: Arkansas, United States

Registered: 2009-06-06

Posts: 356

Re: Ath9k driver drops connection periodically

I'm not sure if you're still having problems with this, but I'm getting the same problem.  I've been running Arch on this laptop for almost 2 years and the wireless has always performed well.  Now I get drops quite frequently, and often I have to manually reconnect using wicd or networkmanager.  I switched to networkmanager to see if that helped, but it seems that the problem resides in the kernel module.

It seems to be exacerbated with high network activity, such as bittorrent or copying files from mounted NFS shares.

clovenhoof

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From: Bulgaria

Registered: 2010-09-16

Posts: 82

Re: Ath9k driver drops connection periodically

Any progress on this issue?
I have got identical problem with my brand new Ubiquiti SR71e card.