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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