[removed netdev, no reason for sending this there] On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:02:51 +0100 (BST), Daniel Drake wrote: > My cheapy D-Link AP behaves strangely w.r.t reassociations. > > The following sequence of commands causes me to lose association and to be > unable to regain it: > > ifconfig eth8 down > ifconfig eth8 up > iwconfig eth8 essid <x> > > This is because mac80211 tries to reassociate, rather than just associate. > My AP replies with an association response (not a reassociation response...) > denying the association with code 12: "Association denied due to reason > outside the scope of this standard" > > mac80211 tries this reassociation another 4 times or so before finally giving > up. > > I see 2 problems here: > 1. bringing the interface down and up again should be resetting interface state > i.e. after the interface is brought down, it should have no memory of if or > where it was previously associated > 2. after the first reassociation fails, mac80211 should fall back to > standard association for the next attempt > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@xxxxxxx> -- Jiri Benc SUSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
