After using it for some days, the issue seems to still be there but manifests itself in a different way.
Before 38-5 when the disconnection happened, the only way to get it back was to modprobe -r ath9k, modprobe ath9k and try to reconect, which usually but not always worked. With 38-5 the drop of connectivity seems to happen less often (still several times a day) and it seems to recover itself most times, with no modprobe -r required. dmesg shows this: [44312.352130] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain [44313.248381] wlan0: authenticate with my:mac:address (try 1) [44313.250236] wlan0: authenticated [44313.254280] wlan0: associate with my:mac:address (try 1) [44313.258528] wlan0: RX AssocResp from my:mac:address (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=3) [44313.258530] wlan0: associated [44341.789307] AIF:Dropped INPUT packet: IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:my:other:mac:address SRC=192.168.1.100 DST=192.168.1.255 LEN=214 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 DPT=631 LEN=194 [44369.424137] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain [44370.298538] wlan0: authenticate with my:mac:address (try 1) [44370.300392] wlan0: authenticated [44370.304403] wlan0: associate with my:mac:address (try 1) [44370.308617] wlan0: RX AssocResp from my:mac:address (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=3) [44370.308620] wlan0: associated [44372.825414] AIF:Dropped INPUT packet: IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:my:other:mac:address SRC=192.168.1.100 DST=192.168.1.255 LEN=214 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 DPT=631 LEN=194 [44375.592228] AIF:Dropped INPUT packet: IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.160 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=107 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=87 [44393.227972] AIF:Dropped INPUT packet: IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:my:mac:address:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=32 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xC0 TTL=1 ID=0 DF PROTO=2 [44403.851936] AIF:Dropped INPUT packet: IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:my:other:mac:address SRC=192.168.1.100 DST=192.168.1.255 LEN=214 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 DPT=631 LEN=194 [44406.412155] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain [44407.174061] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [44411.158926] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [44412.202305] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [44412.331082] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [44414.807154] wlan0: authenticate with my:mac:address (try 1) [44414.812624] wlan0: authenticated [44414.816742] wlan0: associate with my:mac:address (try 1) [44414.821100] wlan0: RX AssocResp from my:mac:address (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=3) [44414.821104] wlan0: associated [44414.824372] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready [44420.591791] AIF:Dropped INPUT packet: IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.160 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=107 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=87 [44420.666170] AIF:Dropped INPUT packet: IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.160 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=463 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=443 [44420.686355] AIF:Dropped INPUT packet: IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.160 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=236 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=216 [44420.917282] AIF:Dropped INPUT packet: IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.160 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=463 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=443 [44421.167817] AIF:Dropped INPUT packet: IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.160 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=463 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=443 [44421.592844] AIF:Dropped INPUT packet: IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.160 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=107 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=87 [44423.593468] AIF:Dropped INPUT packet: IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.160 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=107 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=87 Is there any other info that could be useful? Cheers, Marcos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org