[2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

Alex Osborne ato at meshy.org
Tue Sep 30 15:44:28 CEST 2008


On 30/09/2008, at 10:37 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote:

> Wireless event: cmd=0x8b1a len=18
> Authentication with 00:04:e2:a1:76:0b timed out.
> Added BSSID 00:04:e2:a1:76:0b into blacklist

Yeah.  That's exactly the same sort of thing I was seeing, which  
clearing the essid seems to help with most of the time.  I  
occasionally find the wifi just stops working completely for no  
apparent reason, ping and all other traffic fails but it otherwise  
seems normal from the iwconfig and ifconfig output.  Other times I  
get pages and pages of this rapidly flooded in dmesg:

AR6000 disconnected from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000 disconnected from  
XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000 disconnected from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000  
disconnected from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000 disconnected from  
XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000 disconnected from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000  
disconnected from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000 disconnected from  
XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000 disconnected from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000  
disconnected from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000 disconnected from  
XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000 disconnected from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000  
disconnected from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

without any line breaks and where the XX is the access point  
address.  The only thing that seems to fix it when it does that is to  
reboot.

Cheers,

Alex




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