On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 13:16 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > On 07/10/2013 12:48 PM, José Miguel Gonçalves wrote: > > On 10-07-2013 18:17, Luciano Coelho wrote: > >> On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 17:30 +0100, José Miguel Gonçalves wrote: > >>> On 10-07-2013 13:34, José Miguel Gonçalves wrote: > >>>> I will try a new AP to see how it behaves... > >>>> > >>> I've tested with my Android smartphone acting as an AP, without authentication, > >>> and I'm also unable to associate! > >>> > >>> I get from iw the following error message: > >>> > >>> wlan0 (phy #0): failed to connect to b4:07:f9:49:cc:65, status: 1: > >>> Unspecified failure > >>> > >>> Complete log is here: > >>> > >>> http://pastebin.com/DzPmMw8i > >>> > >>> So, something is definitely wrong with my setup... but what? > >>> Hope that log has some useful info for you... > >> This definitely looks like RF problems. Especially this: > >> > >> [ 177.575000] wlan0: send auth to b4:07:f9:49:cc:65 (try 1/3) > >> [ 177.595000] wlan0: send auth to b4:07:f9:49:cc:65 (try 2/3) > >> [ 177.605000] wlcore: EVENT on mbox 1 > >> [ 177.605000] wlcore: MBOX vector: 0x100000 > >> [ 177.610000] wlcore: MAX_TX_FAILURE_EVENT_ID > >> [ 177.615000] wlan0: send auth to b4:07:f9:49:cc:65 (try 3/3) > >> [ 177.640000] wlan0: authentication with b4:07:f9:49:cc:65 timed out > >> > >> You are send auth requests out, but not getting anything back. > >> Apparently you're not even getting ACKs (as pointed out by the > >> MAX_TX_FAILURE_EVENT_ID). > > > > Hum. I never considered RF problems because I'm testing this module with a > > Jorjin's development kit, so I was considering that Jorjin knows how to make > > PCBs for RF. Also seeing that when I remove the antenna the AP signal strength > > changes from -51 dBm to -73 dBm was a signal to me that the RF was OK. > > > >> > >> Do you have a sniffer? You could try to use your TP-Link dongle with > >> wireshark to see if it works fine as a sniffer. > > > > I have a text console only system. I could put tcpdump on my system, but I think > > I can not monitor wireless traffic with it, or can I? > > I use Kismet to monitor the air on a text-only system. This looks pretty cool, I hadn't seen it before. Thanks for sharing! :) -- Cheers, Luca. -- 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
