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Bug#753768: ath9k: Cannot disable 802.11n in the ath9k driver



Control: tag -1 - patch

On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 21:04 +0100, Chris wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 3.14.7-1
> Severity: normal
> File: ath9k
> Tags: patch
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> The ath9k drive does not support an option for disabling 802.11n.
> 
> I (as do many other users) suffer from frequent disconnections when connected to a
> a wireless AP using 802.11n. Disconnections are accompanied by a message
> indicating that the client has deauthenticated by local choice (reason=3).
> 
> Researching the issue seems to point towards a problem with 802.11n roaming
> and various open source WiFi drivers *[1]. Some drivers provide an option to
> work around this i.e. '11n_disable=1'.
> 
> I notice that 'Michel Alexandre Salim' has contributed the following patch
> to enable this functionality *[2]:
[...]

This approach was rejected upstream, so we will not apply this patch.
Sorry about that, but we do not want to support Debian-specific hacks.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it's the only one we've got.

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