On 01/05/06, Konstantin KABASSANOV <Konstantin.Kabassanov@lip6.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some mounts ago, there was a discussion about unexpected disassociations =
of
> ath clients from access points. After that, a number of important changes
> occurred in the source code, but the problem still remains unchanged.
>
> May  1 16:49:33 pc-04 /netbsd: ath1: link state changed to DOWN
> May  1 16:49:40 pc-04 /netbsd: ath1: link state changed to UP

Same happens to me with a ral client when using WPA with
wpa_supplicant; not as often as it used to, but still enough as to be
annoying.
>
> What are the debug options to enable and the sysctl to set in order to tr=
y
> to discover the origin of the problem?
>
> BTW, where the interface disassociates, I suppose, it starts a channel sc=
an
> trying to re-associate. But I wonder if the scans start from the current
> channel, the next one or from the first channel in the range... Anyway, t=
he
> re-association process takes several seconds...

It could take up to several minutes for me.

No problem whatsoever without encryption.

>
> Thanks.

You may have seen some times earlier Steve Belovin's utilities:

http://www.machshav.com/~smb/ath-tools/

sysctl -w net.link.ieee80211.debug=3D1

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