Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 486868
Wireless link with AP very unstable on iwl3945
Last modified: 2009-12-18 03:00:19 EST
Description of problem: Some time after establishing wireless connection trough AP it looses link with AP. dmesg says: wlan0: No ProbeResp from current AP 00:aa:ab:00:72:f9 - assume out of range iwl3945: Error sending REPLY_RXON: time out after 500ms. iwl3945: Error setting new configuration (-110). WiFi works just perfectly on Win Vista. NetworkManager has big trouble reconnecting after this happens even tough it finds my home network. Connection can only be successfully reestablished by either disabling wireless network in NM and reenabling it or manually resetting WiFi link in console (ifconfig wlan0 down, iwconfig wlan0 essid any, ifconfig wlan0 up, iwconfig wlan0 essid dom, dhclient wlan0). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel.x86_64 2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10 NetworkManager.x86_64 1:0.7.0-1.git20090102.fc10 iwl3945-firmware.noarch 15.28.2.8-2 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Establish wireless link with AP, manually or trough NetworkManager. 2. Wait few minutes. Additional info: Good workaround of this problem is replacing NetworkManager with wifiroamd, but it requires some changes in connection scripts it uses in case of hidden networks reducing number of pings before it assumes lost connection and some delay before running dhclient, so it won't start discovering adresses before link is ready,
Created attachment 332951 [details] NetworkManager's log /var/log/messages from NetworkManager and kernel after connecting trough NM and leaving it unattended.
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