Hi Johannes, > > After a long debugging session with Reinette we finally tracked down > > what is going on here. A full scan with this card takes 7-9 seconds and > > that seems to be too long and trigger IEEE80211_MONITORING_INTERVAL > > which then deauthenticates us with the AP (reason=6). > > Yeah, this is a bug. We analysed this problem a couple of days ago and I > thought Kalle was going to fix it -- maybe he forgot. I forgot what > exactly it was and how to fix it, hmm. Right now I'm confused and can't > seem to reproduce my analysis. I thought it had something to do with > using a different timer but we do seem to use the regular mgd.timer, so > I'm not sure. > > > Problem then is > > that the attempt authenticate/associate with the AP fails with all the > > time (reason=2). Bringing the interface down/up again doesn't help. It > > seems that some internal mac80211 states are messed up. Some times the > > whole process stalls completely and nothing happens anymore. Only > > unloading and reloading the driver or rebooting helps. > > Hmm. Reason 2 is "Previous authentication no longer valid" which would > seem we get confused wrt. being authenticated or not (ie. we think we > are, but are not). Jouni might know? Can you try wpa_supplicant from git > with -Dnl80211? as I wrote, that is exactly what I am using. Trying to get away from this WEXT crap ;) Regards Marcel -- 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
