Drops wifi every 5-10 minutes

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So I have OpenWRT on the fon but it drops wifi every 5-10 minutes, constantly. Anyone else experiencing this? I have it setup using WPA2 PSK. The fon has a huge 8DBI antenna and still drops the connection. I have tried this with the regular antenna as well.

Here is a log of what is happening.

Jan 1 00:05:28 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e IEEE 802.11: associated

Jan 1 00:05:28 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN)

Jan 1 00:12:39 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e IEEE 802.11: associated

Jan 1 00:12:39 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN)

Jan 1 00:14:11 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to local deauth request

Jan 1 00:14:11 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e IEEE 802.11: disassociated

Jan 1 00:14:14 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e IEEE 802.11: associated

Jan 1 00:14:14 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN)

Jan 1 00:18:55 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e IEEE 802.11: associated

Jan 1 00:18:55 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN)

Jan 1 00:24:08 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e WPA: group key handshake completed (RSN)

Jan 1 00:34:11 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to local deauth request

Jan 1 00:34:11 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e IEEE 802.11: disassociated

Jan 1 00:34:25 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e IEEE 802.11: associated

Jan 1 00:34:25 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN)

Jan 1 00:37:35 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e IEEE 802.11: associated

Jan 1 00:37:35 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN)

Jan 1 00:43:57 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e IEEE 802.11: associated

Jan 1 00:43:57 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN)

Jan 1 00:44:08 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e WPA: group key handshake completed (RSN)

Jan 1 00:52:11 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e IEEE 802.11: associated

Jan 1 00:52:11 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN)

Jan 1 00:54:08 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e WPA: group key handshake completed (RSN)

Jan 1 00:57:31 (none) daemon.info hostapd: ath0: STA 00:17:f2:99:56:3e IEEE 802.11: disassociated

[excid3]

Mine was having the same issue. I am running just the Gargoyle firmware and having the problem but it has not happened recently. It did for while after i rebooted it then it has worked properly for the past week or more.

[digininja]

I've not had it with a Fon but used to get it with normal madwifi talking to my AP. As with excid3, it just stopped happening after a while.

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After a night burn in it has stopped for the time being. The fon hadnt been turned on since 2006 when it left the factory so maybe thats why it was flakey.

[digininja]

It just needed some attention, give it some flowers and soft music and it will do whatever you want.

[excid3]

It just needed some attention, give it some flowers and soft music and it will do whatever you want.

La Fonera - easier to please than women.

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La Fonera - easier to please than women.

And she gets so warm too.

[Machstorm]

If you have a firewall up it could be throwing a fit over some traffic. I had that issue with a Belkin Wireless adapter and it turned out to be my firewall would kick the connection when my wireless activity went idle.