[avahi] Problem with avahi and wireless driver (ath9k)

[Ted Percival]

Some drivers don't process multicast packets properly. You can work
around it by setting the "promisc" flag on the interface. See
http://avahi.org/wiki/Avah4users#FAQ number 15.

ath9k is quite popular, I have a vague memory that its handling of
multicast packets was fixed in a fairly recent Linux kernel, around
2.6.29 or so.


Tor Krill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having problems with Avahi and and my AP with a Atheros ath9k card.
> With a client connected to the AP the AP sees all announcements from the
> client but the client does not se anything announced from the AP.
>
> I have tried to enable allmulti on all participating devices, no luck.
> And when connecting the client to another AP it works fine. Further more
> when connecting to the "AP" via wire everything works. Thus i suspect
> the Atheros wireless driver ath9k.
>
> Anyone got any clues on this?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> /Tor 
>