ath0 link up/down frequent

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: "Richard Kolkovich" <sarumont at sigil.org>
> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:21:57 -0500
> 
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:29:13AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > Anything I should look into?
> > 
> > My standard suggestion, which works for me, is to issue an 'ifconfig
> > ath0 -bgscan'. Background scanning is not supposed to effect the
> > association, but it seems to, at least on my system.
> > 
> 
> My experience has been much the same.  It typically only happens in
> areas with a lot of APs, though (i.e. my apartment building).

My case is similar. I will see it on occasion at home where I typically
see only two or three APs, but is only a real problem when I am at a
networking conference and there are a whole raft of APs out there. In
those cases the wireless is rendered unusable as I lose association
every 5 minutes.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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