Re: Atheros abg / madwifi trouble

2005-02-01 Thread Sven
i agree!  i just filed a bug report/enhancement request:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165933

at least for me, i find NM's constant scanning and disconnecting more
than annoying, and it makes NM unusable  for my (laptop's) daily needs.

thanks,

Sven
> maybe it's possible to implement a "hidden" preference in gconf to supply
> a scan interval or even prevent scanning.
> i'd like to prevent nm from scanning when i'm at home 'cause i know there
> is only one access point!
> 
> bye
> stefan
> 


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Re: Atheros abg / madwifi trouble

2005-02-01 Thread Stefan Zechmeister
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:45:10 -0500, Sven wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 13:40 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 13:31 -0500, Sven wrote:
>> > my last 10c: could NM not just monitor the "Link Quality" of the
>> > connection (as in /proc/net/wireless) and trigger a scan if that changes
>> > dramatically? (i guess also with a timer, since if the link quality is
>> > low anyway every change in LQ will be "dramatic" ...)
>> 
>> Unfortunately, the link quality is not reported uniformly by drivers.
>> Some only give you the signal level in dBm, many give you noise in dBm
>> (so at least one could do a signal-to-noise ratio for some idea of
>> quality), some drivers give you a quality but no maximum quality, and
>> some drivers actually do the right thing.  Furthermore, many drivers
>> don't report the correct maximum quality/max rssi for your particular
>> chipset.  Its really not good to rely on anything quality related at
>> this time.
> 
> understood. i guess it's hard to find a solution that fits all...
> especially with all these different cards and drivers and... 
> 
> i guess i would really really like to be able to stay connected to the
> ap, i.e. be able to stop the scanning, since i'm usually in one spot for
> a long time... and the constant disconnecting (even for a short time) is
> really annoying. any chance to have the scanning optional?
> 
> Sven

maybe it's possible to implement a "hidden" preference in gconf to supply
a scan interval or even prevent scanning.
i'd like to prevent nm from scanning when i'm at home 'cause i know there
is only one access point!

bye
stefan

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Re: Atheros abg / madwifi trouble

2005-02-01 Thread Stefan Zechmeister
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:52:59 -0500, Lance A. Brown wrote:

> Dan Williams wrote:
>> 
>> I've committed some updates to CVS that may fix this, but Monday at work a 
>> coworker has an Atheros abg card that I'll test out and see if I can come 
>> up with a definite fix.
> 
> NM isn't pushing my Atheros into mode 1 (802.11a) mode anymore, and the
> NIC associates with my AP properly now, but NM isn't finding out the NIC
> has hardware link.  It sits forever waiting.
> 
> This is a definite improvment over getting put into 802.11a mode.  I'm
> glad to see progress!
> 
> --[Lance]

yes. great improvement over the version of nm released with fc3!

i experience the same here. as soon as i the card associates, nm reports
no hardware link and waits for another ap forever.

dan, i hope you find the bug today.

bye
stefan

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Re: Atheros abg / madwifi trouble

2005-01-31 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 11:14 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:

> We can't _stop_ scanning when we're successfully connected to an AP,
> otherwise we'll never get an up-to-date list of access points in our
> menu, but it can be far less often than we do it now.  I still think
> that if the normalized scan list changes, we need to bump the next scan
> up earlier as well, to ensure validity of the scan list.  The thing is,
> if the menu lists an access point that actually is no longer there, the
> user technically cannot connect to it, but its still in the menu.
> _Also_ not good from a users perspective.

It should be possible though to only do the scan when the applet is
clicked on?  At least if we're connected with "high" quality; I know
there are problems with quality, but perhaps it is possible to see how
sensible the returned information is, and use it if it seems reasonable.
Or alternatively go the whitelist approach.



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Re: Atheros abg / madwifi trouble

2005-01-31 Thread Sven
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 13:40 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 13:31 -0500, Sven wrote:
> > my last 10c: could NM not just monitor the "Link Quality" of the
> > connection (as in /proc/net/wireless) and trigger a scan if that changes
> > dramatically? (i guess also with a timer, since if the link quality is
> > low anyway every change in LQ will be "dramatic" ...)
> 
> Unfortunately, the link quality is not reported uniformly by drivers.
> Some only give you the signal level in dBm, many give you noise in dBm
> (so at least one could do a signal-to-noise ratio for some idea of
> quality), some drivers give you a quality but no maximum quality, and
> some drivers actually do the right thing.  Furthermore, many drivers
> don't report the correct maximum quality/max rssi for your particular
> chipset.  Its really not good to rely on anything quality related at
> this time.

understood. i guess it's hard to find a solution that fits all...
especially with all these different cards and drivers and... 

i guess i would really really like to be able to stay connected to the
ap, i.e. be able to stop the scanning, since i'm usually in one spot for
a long time... and the constant disconnecting (even for a short time) is
really annoying. any chance to have the scanning optional?

Sven

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Re: Atheros abg / madwifi trouble

2005-01-31 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 13:08 -0500, Sven wrote:
> also, i noticed that in a network environment with many ap's with the
> same essid NM only shows one entry in the wireless networks - should one
> not be able to choose between the ap's if one wanted to? but that's just
> a minor question on the side...

Unless we're displaying the MAC address too (which we're not going to
do) it doesn't really make any sense to show multiple access points in
the menu.  In the future, I hope to be able to pick a certain access
point based on signal strength, or at least fix card drivers to be able
to correctly roam to different access points in the same ESSID.  Some
drivers have private ioctl()s to be able to do that but AFAIK almost all
cards support that capability.

The problem with specifying a particular MAC address to associate with
is that the card can't roam and is locked to that MAC until we change
it.  Which would be OK, except that scanned quality information is even
worse than associated AP quality information.  Some drivers (atmel,
ipw2100) don't even return quality information for scanned access
points, and other drivers give totally different and inconsistent
quality levels for scanned access points in relation to the
noise/max_quality levels they advertise (for example, the currently
associated AP's quality information returned by SIOCGIWSTATS is
completely different than the quality information _for that same AP_ as
returned in the scan list).

In short, drivers really need to be fixed.

Dan

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Re: Atheros abg / madwifi trouble

2005-01-31 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 13:31 -0500, Sven wrote:
> my last 10c: could NM not just monitor the "Link Quality" of the
> connection (as in /proc/net/wireless) and trigger a scan if that changes
> dramatically? (i guess also with a timer, since if the link quality is
> low anyway every change in LQ will be "dramatic" ...)

Unfortunately, the link quality is not reported uniformly by drivers.
Some only give you the signal level in dBm, many give you noise in dBm
(so at least one could do a signal-to-noise ratio for some idea of
quality), some drivers give you a quality but no maximum quality, and
some drivers actually do the right thing.  Furthermore, many drivers
don't report the correct maximum quality/max rssi for your particular
chipset.  Its really not good to rely on anything quality related at
this time.

Dan

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Re: Atheros abg / madwifi trouble

2005-01-31 Thread Sven
my last 10c: could NM not just monitor the "Link Quality" of the
connection (as in /proc/net/wireless) and trigger a scan if that changes
dramatically? (i guess also with a timer, since if the link quality is
low anyway every change in LQ will be "dramatic" ...)

thanks for all your efforts, i really appreciate the responses i
received!

Sven



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Re: Atheros abg / madwifi trouble

2005-01-31 Thread Sven


On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 12:25 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 11:46 -0500, Sven wrote:
> > agreed. the drivers are not perfect, but usable. i'm annoyed by the fact
> > that my current madwifi driver does not display signal strengths in
> > iwlist scan. however, it seems to me that the card _is_ scanning for
> > changes in AP's constantly without disconnecting (ie, in wavemon i see
> > changes in the AP list, but no interruptions in the connection). i
> > assume that is driver specific? 
> 
> I just checked with wavemon and my Atheros a/b/g card...  I also see the
> list of access points changing, but the code that does that uses the
> SIOCGIWAPLIST ioctl() which is deprecated and not very well supported
> (only Atheros/madwifi seems to support it at all, none of the kernel
> drivers do).  It seems to be more of a "passive" function that just
> pulls the card's current list of access points without actually
> triggering a scan.  I would expect this function to get removed from
> Madwifi at some point.  Just the fact that none of the in-kernel drivers
> support SIOCGIWAPLIST means we cannot use it and that we must use
> SIOCGIWSCAN.  There are a number of reasons for that, first that WAPLIST
> had hard limits on the attributes for each AP returned by the call, it
> had an upper limit of access points returned too.
> 
> In short, wavemon is using a deprecated API that is only supported by
> the madwifi drivers and will be removed in the future AFAIK.
mhhh. too bad. i played with iwlist a bit (and, after downloading the madwifi 
sources and 
building a new driver i have even link qualities now) i noticed disassociation 
from the AP
when scanning, as you said. and iwlist ap only shows the AP's from previous 
scans... FWIW
i also noticed though that wavemon has the same output in aplst as iwlist ap. 

> 
> I think we can address your problem by having the card scan less often
> (and even less often if its an a/b/g card).
that would be great! automatic scanning is great, but not if it makes
the connection a pain... in the NM applet, could there be a user
friendly way to restrict the card to a,b or g only?

also, i noticed that in a network environment with many ap's with the
same essid NM only shows one entry in the wireless networks - should one
not be able to choose between the ap's if one wanted to? but that's just
a minor question on the side...

Sven

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Re: Atheros abg / madwifi trouble

2005-01-31 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 11:46 -0500, Sven wrote:
> agreed. the drivers are not perfect, but usable. i'm annoyed by the fact
> that my current madwifi driver does not display signal strengths in
> iwlist scan. however, it seems to me that the card _is_ scanning for
> changes in AP's constantly without disconnecting (ie, in wavemon i see
> changes in the AP list, but no interruptions in the connection). i
> assume that is driver specific? 

I just checked with wavemon and my Atheros a/b/g card...  I also see the
list of access points changing, but the code that does that uses the
SIOCGIWAPLIST ioctl() which is deprecated and not very well supported
(only Atheros/madwifi seems to support it at all, none of the kernel
drivers do).  It seems to be more of a "passive" function that just
pulls the card's current list of access points without actually
triggering a scan.  I would expect this function to get removed from
Madwifi at some point.  Just the fact that none of the in-kernel drivers
support SIOCGIWAPLIST means we cannot use it and that we must use
SIOCGIWSCAN.  There are a number of reasons for that, first that WAPLIST
had hard limits on the attributes for each AP returned by the call, it
had an upper limit of access points returned too.

In short, wavemon is using a deprecated API that is only supported by
the madwifi drivers and will be removed in the future AFAIK.

> right now, i'm more or less happy using ifplugd and connecting to secure
> networks by hand. it'd be great to have a wireless solution that works
> in a user friendly way, though.

I think we can address your problem by having the card scan less often
(and even less often if its an a/b/g card).

Dan

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Re: Atheros abg / madwifi trouble

2005-01-31 Thread Sven
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 11:14 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 10:37 -0500, Sven wrote:
> > > There are really just two things to consider.  We can't _never_ scan,
> > > and we can't always scan.  We need to find some algorithm for NM of
> > > balancing the two, and make that algorithm tunable on-the-fly.  We want
> > > to do a few scans on startup of course, to build the initial list.  And
> > > perhaps we want to scan more often when the card isn't in use or when
> > > its not associated, for example.
> > it seems to me that if the card is connected to an AP, it should not try to 
> > scan that much/often unless  the user wants it to.
> 
> We can't _stop_ scanning when we're successfully connected to an AP,
> otherwise we'll never get an up-to-date list of access points in our
> menu, but it can be far less often than we do it now.  I still think
> that if the normalized scan list changes, we need to bump the next scan
> up earlier as well, to ensure validity of the scan list.  The thing is,
> if the menu lists an access point that actually is no longer there, the
> user technically cannot connect to it, but its still in the menu.
> _Also_ not good from a users perspective.
> 
> At a future point we may be able to filter out access points that are at
> the edge of the card's range, but under Linux right now the drivers
> simply suck too much.  Its hard enough getting usable signal strength
> for the _current_ access point, let alone for scanned access points.

agreed. the drivers are not perfect, but usable. i'm annoyed by the fact
that my current madwifi driver does not display signal strengths in
iwlist scan. however, it seems to me that the card _is_ scanning for
changes in AP's constantly without disconnecting (ie, in wavemon i see
changes in the AP list, but no interruptions in the connection). i
assume that is driver specific? 

right now, i'm more or less happy using ifplugd and connecting to secure
networks by hand. it'd be great to have a wireless solution that works
in a user friendly way, though.

Sven

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Re: Atheros abg / madwifi trouble

2005-01-31 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 10:37 -0500, Sven wrote:
> > There are really just two things to consider.  We can't _never_ scan,
> > and we can't always scan.  We need to find some algorithm for NM of
> > balancing the two, and make that algorithm tunable on-the-fly.  We want
> > to do a few scans on startup of course, to build the initial list.  And
> > perhaps we want to scan more often when the card isn't in use or when
> > its not associated, for example.
> it seems to me that if the card is connected to an AP, it should not try to 
> scan that much/often unless  the user wants it to.

We can't _stop_ scanning when we're successfully connected to an AP,
otherwise we'll never get an up-to-date list of access points in our
menu, but it can be far less often than we do it now.  I still think
that if the normalized scan list changes, we need to bump the next scan
up earlier as well, to ensure validity of the scan list.  The thing is,
if the menu lists an access point that actually is no longer there, the
user technically cannot connect to it, but its still in the menu.
_Also_ not good from a users perspective.

At a future point we may be able to filter out access points that are at
the edge of the card's range, but under Linux right now the drivers
simply suck too much.  Its hard enough getting usable signal strength
for the _current_ access point, let alone for scanned access points.

Dan

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Re: Atheros abg / madwifi trouble

2005-01-31 Thread Sven
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 10:00 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 17:11 -0500, Sven wrote:
> > NetworkManager does not work well with my mini Atheros abg card. it can
> > associate ok, but then roughly every minute it looses the connection and
> > the card is scanning/cycling through all channels for about 10 secs or
> > so. during that time iwconfig gives "FF:...:FF" as the AP. it cycles
> > through the channels 3 times, and the associates with the original AP
> > again.
> 
> Sven,
> 
> Ok, I took a look with this card.  The behavior you're seeing is pretty
> much expected, that's the card running its wireless scan so we can
> update our list of access points.  The thing you may not be aware of is
> that the card supports so many frequencies that it takes a _long_ time
> to scan all the channels (somewhere around 10s it seems, from this
> card).  Obviously, since the card isn't associated during that time, it
> cannot send or receive traffic.
> 
> Some observations:
> 
> 1) NetworkManager starts with a 20s scan interval, and if the aggregate
> list of access points does not change with each successive scan, it
> backs the scan interval back to 60s.  If the list changes (an AP drops
> off after the 2m "last seen" check, or a new one appears), the scan
> interval jumps back to 20s.
> 
IMHO this is a lot of scanning & disconnection from the AP. I forced the
card in b-mode only, and it's still scanning and disconnecting for ~4s
every 60s.

> 2) Since the card takes so long to scan, and since no traffic can flow
> during the scan, it doesn't work very well from a user's perspective.
Word! what bothers me most is the "dead time" of disassociation.

> 3) I don't mind tuning the scan algorithm.  I can figure out how many
> channels the card supports, and if its over 14 that means its an a/b/g
> card right now.  I then know that it will take a while to scan, since
> the time that a card must remain on a channel to sense the AP's beacon
> does have a lower bound (a couple hundred ms, something like 150ms -
> 200ms).  Perhaps if the card is an a/b/g card, I should step the scan
> interval back 20s rather than 10.
whatever works... i'm just a user ;-)

> 4) There are smarter ways of doing this.  For example, no card will do
> well with streaming video/audio when scanning.  So perhaps
> NetworkManager should monitor the amount of traffic on the card, and if
> its above a certain level, then put off the scan.  If more than 4 scans
> (for example) have been deferred, then force a scan at the next
> interval.  This would mean far fewer interruptions.  I assume the kernel
> has some way of relaying traffic statistics to us.
not just audio streaming. i ssh a lot, and scanning time means dead
time.

> There are really just two things to consider.  We can't _never_ scan,
> and we can't always scan.  We need to find some algorithm for NM of
> balancing the two, and make that algorithm tunable on-the-fly.  We want
> to do a few scans on startup of course, to build the initial list.  And
> perhaps we want to scan more often when the card isn't in use or when
> its not associated, for example.
it seems to me that if the card is connected to an AP, it should not try to 
scan that much/often unless  the user wants it to.

> I think I've got a few ideas on how to do this, but at the moment there
> are a few other things that need to get done first...  Patches would be
> accepted though.  If you'd like to file a bug at bugzilla.gnome.org or
> bugzilla.redhat.com just to keep me reminded, that would be helpful.
> Say something like "RFE: Tuneable scanning algorithm".
done.

thanks,

Sven

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Re: Atheros abg / madwifi trouble

2005-01-31 Thread Dan Williams
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 17:11 -0500, Sven wrote:
> NetworkManager does not work well with my mini Atheros abg card. it can
> associate ok, but then roughly every minute it looses the connection and
> the card is scanning/cycling through all channels for about 10 secs or
> so. during that time iwconfig gives "FF:...:FF" as the AP. it cycles
> through the channels 3 times, and the associates with the original AP
> again.

Sven,

Ok, I took a look with this card.  The behavior you're seeing is pretty
much expected, that's the card running its wireless scan so we can
update our list of access points.  The thing you may not be aware of is
that the card supports so many frequencies that it takes a _long_ time
to scan all the channels (somewhere around 10s it seems, from this
card).  Obviously, since the card isn't associated during that time, it
cannot send or receive traffic.

Some observations:

1) NetworkManager starts with a 20s scan interval, and if the aggregate
list of access points does not change with each successive scan, it
backs the scan interval back to 60s.  If the list changes (an AP drops
off after the 2m "last seen" check, or a new one appears), the scan
interval jumps back to 20s.

2) Since the card takes so long to scan, and since no traffic can flow
during the scan, it doesn't work very well from a user's perspective.

3) I don't mind tuning the scan algorithm.  I can figure out how many
channels the card supports, and if its over 14 that means its an a/b/g
card right now.  I then know that it will take a while to scan, since
the time that a card must remain on a channel to sense the AP's beacon
does have a lower bound (a couple hundred ms, something like 150ms -
200ms).  Perhaps if the card is an a/b/g card, I should step the scan
interval back 20s rather than 10.

4) There are smarter ways of doing this.  For example, no card will do
well with streaming video/audio when scanning.  So perhaps
NetworkManager should monitor the amount of traffic on the card, and if
its above a certain level, then put off the scan.  If more than 4 scans
(for example) have been deferred, then force a scan at the next
interval.  This would mean far fewer interruptions.  I assume the kernel
has some way of relaying traffic statistics to us.

There are really just two things to consider.  We can't _never_ scan,
and we can't always scan.  We need to find some algorithm for NM of
balancing the two, and make that algorithm tunable on-the-fly.  We want
to do a few scans on startup of course, to build the initial list.  And
perhaps we want to scan more often when the card isn't in use or when
its not associated, for example.

I think I've got a few ideas on how to do this, but at the moment there
are a few other things that need to get done first...  Patches would be
accepted though.  If you'd like to file a bug at bugzilla.gnome.org or
bugzilla.redhat.com just to keep me reminded, that would be helpful.
Say something like "RFE: Tuneable scanning algorithm".

Dan

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Re: Atheros abg / madwifi trouble

2005-01-31 Thread Paul Ionescu
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:09:43 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Sven wrote:
>> NetworkManager does not work well with my mini Atheros abg card. it can
>> associate ok, but then roughly every minute it looses the connection and
>> the card is scanning/cycling through all channels for about 10 secs or
>> so. during that time iwconfig gives "FF:...:FF" as the AP. it cycles
>> through the channels 3 times, and the associates with the original AP
>> again.
> 
> I've committed some updates to CVS that may fix this, but Monday at work a
> coworker has an Atheros abg card that I'll test out and see if I can come
> up with a definite fix.
> 
> FWIW, how far away from the AP are you?
> 

Same problem here.
I am at 1 meter from the AP.
Manual configuration works just fine  (without NM ).

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Re: Atheros abg / madwifi trouble

2005-01-30 Thread Lance A. Brown
Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> I've committed some updates to CVS that may fix this, but Monday at work a 
> coworker has an Atheros abg card that I'll test out and see if I can come 
> up with a definite fix.

NM isn't pushing my Atheros into mode 1 (802.11a) mode anymore, and the
NIC associates with my AP properly now, but NM isn't finding out the NIC
has hardware link.  It sits forever waiting.

This is a definite improvment over getting put into 802.11a mode.  I'm
glad to see progress!

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Re: Atheros abg / madwifi trouble

2005-01-30 Thread Sven
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 18:09 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Sven wrote:
> > NetworkManager does not work well with my mini Atheros abg card. it can
> > associate ok, but then roughly every minute it looses the connection and
> > the card is scanning/cycling through all channels for about 10 secs or
> > so. during that time iwconfig gives "FF:...:FF" as the AP. it cycles
> > through the channels 3 times, and the associates with the original AP
> > again.
> 
> I've committed some updates to CVS that may fix this, but Monday at work a 
> coworker has an Atheros abg card that I'll test out and see if I can come 
> up with a definite fix.
> 
> FWIW, how far away from the AP are you?

when i tried last, 5 feet from a netgear wgr614v4 in g mode. the same
happened (with older versions of NM) at various distances with an ap in
b mode.

looking forward to a fix,

Sven

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Re: Atheros abg / madwifi trouble

2005-01-30 Thread Dan Williams
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Sven wrote:
> NetworkManager does not work well with my mini Atheros abg card. it can
> associate ok, but then roughly every minute it looses the connection and
> the card is scanning/cycling through all channels for about 10 secs or
> so. during that time iwconfig gives "FF:...:FF" as the AP. it cycles
> through the channels 3 times, and the associates with the original AP
> again.

I've committed some updates to CVS that may fix this, but Monday at work a 
coworker has an Atheros abg card that I'll test out and see if I can come 
up with a definite fix.

FWIW, how far away from the AP are you?

Dan
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Atheros abg / madwifi trouble

2005-01-30 Thread Sven
NetworkManager does not work well with my mini Atheros abg card. it can
associate ok, but then roughly every minute it looses the connection and
the card is scanning/cycling through all channels for about 10 secs or
so. during that time iwconfig gives "FF:...:FF" as the AP. it cycles
through the channels 3 times, and the associates with the original AP
again.

i'm using: 
* Fedora Core 3, kernel 2.6.10-1.753, up2date,
* CVS NetworkManager from 20050130,
* madwifi driver snapshot from 20050125,
* wireless tools 28pre4

card details: 
02:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212
802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: Atheros Communications, Inc. Netgate 5354MP ARIES a
(108Mb turbo)/b/g MiniPCI Adapter
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at 2001 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

any help with this issue is greatly appreciated. unless this problem is
fixed NetworkManager is pretty useless for me. 

thanks,

Sven

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