linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.29+ ath5k connect disconnect cycles?

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Message-Id: <1239291313.8961.7.camel@localhost>
Date:	Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:35:13 +0200
From:	Soeren Sonnenburg <sonne@...ian.org>
To:	"\"Markus" Koßmann" <mkossmann_ml1@....de>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@...tes.com.br>
Subject: Re: 2.6.29+ ath5k connect disconnect cycles?

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 12:29 +0200, "Markus Koßmann" wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 21:55 +0200, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
> > wrote:
> > > On Apr 06 09 10:55, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > > > does anyone else observer strange connect disconnect cycles with
> > ath5k?
> > > > I have two different notebooks here one with an AR5414 and one with
> > some
> > > > 2424 (?) chipset both having the same problems to connect...
> > > 
> > > Hello Soeren,
> > > 
> > > Is there any information from dmesg?
> > 
> > I am seeing cycles of
[connecting and reconnecting]
> > Not sure about the involvement of network-manager here... but I see that
> > the device gets a valid IP via dhcp.
> > 
> I've seen such cycles also with intel ipw5300 WLAN and using ifconfig to start the network. To get WLAN working again, I have to ifdown wlan0 , unload and reload the driver module and  finally ifup wlan0. So it's probably neither a ath5k nor a network-manager problem.

A rmmod ath5k / reload didn't help in my case.

Soeren
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