On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 09:09 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Hm. This is curious. *How* does AP mode fail? You said earlier stations > failed to connect, but can they actually get associated? I'm curious > because while I could see the carrier state thing causing issues (on old > hostapd versions that we didn't test), I'm not sure I see how the skb > payload makes a difference since mac80211 will linearize management > frames (so association should work) and data frames don't matter (so > authorization should work) ... unless there's a bug somewhere in > mac80211 where it forgets to pskb_may_pull(), but I don't see any such > place right now. I am not sure what happens. In the failure case the high-level symptom (in NetwokManager or in Windows) is that "failed to set IP address". I've captured 2 tcpdumps - for the working (those 2 patches reverted) and non-working cases (vanilla 3.5.4). I'll send them to you privately. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy
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