The stuck bacon nightmare

Everything was going so well that it could not continue. The driver is giving me stuck beacons that reset the AP and make it unusable. RAA

wifi0: ath_bstuck_tasklet: Stuck beacon; resetting (beacon miss count: 11)

This is a well known issue, though. Some people try to tweak the parameters, others have some voodoo techniques that did not work for me. Now I am patching ath5k to support master mode, but it is not really working.

Now, I am trying the wireless-testing branch of the kernel, with the last drivers available, we'll see...

EDIT: Finally, I tried a bunch of different stuff to make it work, without success. However, I was able to decrease somehow the number of Stuck beacon by doing the following:

1. Downloading madwfi on the repository (http://madwifi-project.org/svn)
2. in ath/if_ath_pci.c, we can tweak the PCI latency: pci_write_config_byte(pdev, PCI_LATENCY_TIMER, 0x20);
3. Do the voodoo stuff as described in here
4. You can try to switch to ath5k, but master mode was not really successful on my side.