associating -> disconnected

[Bill Moseley <moseley hank org>]

I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 a Thinkpad with an
Atheros AR5418 using the ath9k module.

Now I'm having connection issues as shown in the logs below.  I'm not
sure if this is a Network Manager issue or a problem with the driver.
Or if it's the supplicant.

Before upgrading it often took a minute or so to finally connect when
first booting.  When waking up from sleep it connected very quickly.

Now it often does not connect at boot and I have to wait for it to
time out and prompt me for the password.  If I then cancel and wait a
minute then I can ask nm-applet to connect to the AP again and it will
work.

Can you glean any helpful info out of these logs?  Or is there
something I can do to enable better debugging?



Jun 14 07:14:21 tiger NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant connection state:  scanning -> associating 
Jun 14 07:14:21 tiger kernel: [  158.973082] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:09:5b:b3:c7:18
Jun 14 07:14:21 tiger kernel: [  159.172172] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:09:5b:b3:c7:18
Jun 14 07:14:22 tiger kernel: [  159.372158] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:09:5b:b3:c7:18
Jun 14 07:14:22 tiger kernel: [  159.573148] wlan0: authentication with AP 00:09:5b:b3:c7:18 timed out
Jun 14 07:14:31 tiger NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant connection state:  associating -> disconnected 
Jun 14 07:14:31 tiger NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant connection state:  disconnected -> scanning 
Jun 14 07:14:34 tiger kernel: [  171.964140] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:09:5b:b3:c7:18
Jun 14 07:14:34 tiger NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant connection state:  scanning -> associating 
Jun 14 07:14:34 tiger kernel: [  171.968552] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:09:5b:b3:c7:18
Jun 14 07:14:34 tiger kernel: [  172.168151] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:09:5b:b3:c7:18
Jun 14 07:14:35 tiger kernel: [  172.368150] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:09:5b:b3:c7:18
Jun 14 07:14:35 tiger kernel: [  172.568143] wlan0: authentication with AP 00:09:5b:b3:c7:18 timed out
Jun 14 07:14:44 tiger NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant connection state:  associating -> disconnected 
Jun 14 07:14:44 tiger NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant connection state:  disconnected -> scanning 
Jun 14 07:14:47 tiger NetworkManager: <info>  wlan0: link timed out. 



$ dmesg | grep ath
[    3.748659] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.0.5 loaded
[    3.748664] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[   15.203096] ath9k: 0.1
[   15.203136] ath9k 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[   15.203149] ath9k 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[   15.334382] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'ath9k_rate_control'
[   15.474222] Registered led device: ath9k-phy0:radio
[   15.474263] Registered led device: ath9k-phy0:assoc
[   15.474304] Registered led device: ath9k-phy0:tx
[   15.474343] Registered led device: ath9k-phy0:rx
[   15.902149] ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
[   15.903340] ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
[   15.919282] ath_pci: 0.9.4

wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:09:5B:B3:C7:18
                    ESSID:"hanklan2"
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:1
                    Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
                    Quality=76/100  Signal level:-46 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    IE: Unknown: 000868616E6B6C616E32
                    IE: Unknown: 010482848B96
                    IE: Unknown: 030101
                    IE: Unknown: 0706555320010B1B
                    IE: Unknown: 2A0100
                    IE: Unknown: 32080C1218243048606C
                    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                    IE: WPA Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                    IE: Unknown: DD2D000CB401280102000100095BB3C71800000A000211000000095BB3C71800000000000000000000000000000000
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
                              9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Extra:tsf=00000176e3464e18
                    Extra: Last beacon: 2680ms ago



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