FS#25006 - Wireless card powers down when it fails to connect

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Adam Jimerson (vendion) - Sunday, 03 July 2011, 22:26 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Thursday, 04 August 2011, 20:12 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: If an attempt to connect to a wireless access point fails on my system the wireless card, Atheros AR9285, is powered down for some reason and I have to run "ifconfig wlan0 up" as root to get the interface back up. I know that reproducing this will be hard because it depends on the connection failing, netcfg fails with "DHCP lease failed" before the card is powered down. The timeout for the interface is set to 60 seconds and all the networks I have been trying with are open hot spots.

Additional info:
* package version(s) kernel26: 2.6.39.2-1 and netcfg: 2.5.5-1
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
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Closed by  Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Thursday, 04 August 2011, 20:12 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  In addition, no response from OP.
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Monday, 11 July 2011, 22:14 GMT
this is not an archlinux bug in packaging, it's an issue with your driver you use for your wireless chip. You should ask https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel for support

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