Re: periodic_update(): Roamed ...

[Howard Chu <hyc symas com>]

Howard Chu wrote:
> This is probably more related to the ath9k driver, but I wanted to start here
> in case anyone is familiar with it. I've been seeing this for the past couple
> months, and I just now rebuilt NM fresh from git and it's still happening:

I seem to have ruled out the driver; doing a kill -9 on NetworkManager so it 
doesn't have the opportunity to tear down the connection on exit, shows that 
the wifi connection works perfectly once NetworkManager is gone. No 
disassociation messages in dmesg, no pauses in ssh sessions, etc.

> Apr 17 15:40:05 violino NetworkManager:<info>   (wlan0): supplicant connection
> state:  group handshake ->  completed
> Apr 17 15:40:07 violino NetworkManager:<debug>  [1240008007.001860]
> periodic_update(): Roamed from BSSID (none) ((none)) to 00:12:17:26:56:10
> (HighlandSun)
> Apr 17 15:40:25 violino NetworkManager:<debug>  [1240008025.003189]
> periodic_update(): Roamed from BSSID 00:12:17:26:56:10 (HighlandSun) to (none)
> ((none))
> Apr 17 15:40:31 violino NetworkManager:<debug>  [1240008031.003983]
> periodic_update(): Roamed from BSSID (none) ((none)) to 00:12:17:26:56:10
> (HighlandSun)
> Apr 17 15:41:25 violino NetworkManager:<debug>  [1240008085.002651]
> periodic_update(): Roamed from BSSID 00:12:17:26:56:10 (HighlandSun) to (none)
> ((none))
> Apr 17 15:41:31 violino NetworkManager:<debug>  [1240008091.002730]
> periodic_update(): Roamed from BSSID (none) ((none)) to 00:12:17:26:56:10
> (HighlandSun)
> Apr 17 15:44:25 violino NetworkManager:<debug>  [1240008265.002821]
> periodic_update(): Roamed from BSSID 00:12:17:26:56:10 (HighlandSun) to (none)
> ((none))
>
> The signal strength is consistently 80% or better, I'm only 10 feet from the
> AP and have a clear line of sight to the antenna. What is this trying to tell me?


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