[Bug 414560] Re: ath9k disassociates/reassociates a lot

[Sir_Brizz]

I just got a new work laptop a couple of weeks ago and have been having
nothing but trouble with the wireless card.

02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless
Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

using the ath9k driver.

Depending on the access point I am using, I get a wide variety of
results and stability.

At home I have a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 with the Tomato firmware. It is
"reasonably" stable, it disconnects every hour or so without cause which
is far better than anywhere else I've used this.

At work I have had two different routers that I am unsure of models on,
one was a NetGear and the other is a D-Link. With both I lose connection
constantly and have to reassociate. This happens at least once every
half hour.

At another location I have a Linksys WRT54GL. It is almost completely
and utterly unusable. The wireless never disassociates, it just stops
working completely. I have to manually re-associate with the access
point for the connection to start working again.

On the Linksys it is really strange because some services continue
working while others just die, and eventually they all die. And this
happens multiple times every half hour. Often I don't even have a
connection the instant I connect to the access point.

This is REALLY bad. Atheros cards have been available with an open
source driver for a long time and there are tons of open bugs in
Launchpad about this same kind of issue with the ath9k driver.

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ath9k disassociates/reassociates a lot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414560
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