On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:31 AM, David Goodenough
<david.goodenough@linkchoose.co.uk> wrote:
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> On Wednesday 17 November 2010, Bob Copeland wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 7:22 AM, David Goodenough
>>
>> <david.goodenough@linkchoose.co.uk> wrote:
>> > I have a board with an atheros wireless card, driven by ath5k.  The
>> > driver is from compat wireless as supplied by openwrt trunk with a
>> > 2.6.32 kernel.
>>
>> What's the exact error message?
>>
>> Most often these are the reason codes defined by the
>> 802.11 standard, and you can find them listed there
>> (in my copy, table 7-22).  Unfortunately error code 1
>> is "unspecified reason."  Unless you can get more
>> information from the access point, your best bet may
>> be to do a frame capture and see if there's anything
>> obvious that may be upsetting the AP.
>
> The exact error message is:-
>
> wpa_supplicant: deauthenticated from 00:26:f2:06:10:68 (Reason: 1)

Is there anything in dmesg?

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> It happens at pretty regular 2 minute intervals.

This could be beacon loss or background scanning or something similar.
You should try using a more recent kernel just to see if it's something
that has already been fixed.

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
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