On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 23:49 +0200, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > Hi, > > I seem to find proper fixes for problem with driver_nl80211. > Despite workaround in wpa_supplicant that sends deauth when auth command > fails, this driver still doesn't work. > > Problem is that scanning is not allowed in authenticated but not > associated state. I was told that this is feature, but afterwards I > understood that it is legal for wpa_supplicant not to use deauthenticate > command. > > In the other hand mac80211 holds a work list of things todo that include > pings, associations, authentications, etc... > > Following the code it seems that this list is set to hold forever > entries that belong to associated but not authenticated access points. > For example ieee80211_mgd_deauth will fail if this condition isn't true. > > So I modified __ieee80211_start_scan to work even if work list isn't > empty but all entries are idle. > > As for second problem, the lack of ability to do authentication to > access point twice, I modified nl80211 by 'roughly' removing the check > for this condition, treating new request as if ap was never > authenticated. This seems to work very well. > > > Best regards, > Maxim Levitsky > However, even with these patches, I found test case when it doesn't work. If I connect to different APs, then driver_nl80211 doesn't send deauth at all. On the other hand, nl80211/cfg80211 keeps track of all auth bsses, in list that has 4 entries. As soon as this list is full, its not possible to connect to a different AP. Mess isn't it? Best regards, Maxim Levitsky -- 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
