HTC Hero cannot get an address from an ath5k AP

Hello,

I've recently acquired a HTC Hero, and thought I'd try and use it with my ath5k based AP. It doesn't work, and I'm at a loss to debug it.

The only hint I have is that neither of my (Linux-based) laptops can hold association to the AP without traffic flowing continuously, which leads me to suspect power saving issues.

My hostapd configuration file is attached; I've checked that I've used the correct WEP key. I can provide any more information that's needed. My controller appears in lspci as:

02:04.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor [168c:0013] (rev 01)

and in dmesg as:

[572338.589520] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR5414 chip found (MAC: 0xa5, PHY: 0x61)

I have:

CONFIG_ATH_COMMON=m
CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_ATH5K=m
CONFIG_ATH5K_DEBUG=y

set in my .config, and have debugfs available.

Any help will be gratefully received,

Simon Farnsworth

Just realised that I forgot the most important information:

My kernel is wireless-testing git master as of commit fe1bafb0a2e95c9379df62e6ccc80713096c283c

My hostapd is git master as of commit
224f7bda793010087833899a5b203ac80a05b208

Simon

Hi Simon,

I am sure this is an issue with power saving -- this patch may help somewhat, but the last time I looked at it, there were still some additional issues:

http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/56785/

Also I never did get beacon gating to work wrt the discussion around the patch.

Unfortunately I'm completely slammed for the next 3-4 weeks until this semester ends, so unable to do any wireless work. Would anyone else care to take a shot at narrowing this down?

Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com