From: Joerg Albert <jal2@gmx.de>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mac80211: reassociate in STA mode after AP was power-cycled
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:15:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8F2A96.6070408@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1250889836.4600.21.camel@johannes.local>
On 08/21/2009 11:23 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 23:11 +0200, Joerg Albert wrote:
>> I had a ar9170usb device in STA mode associated to an AP and power-cycled the AP - slowly enough to get the
>> STA disassociated.
>>
>> I wonder why the STA doesn't re-associate again to the AP once it's up again. Waited for 5+ minutes.
>
> It told userspace that it disconnected, and as such it can't do anything
> any more. Just run wpa_supplicant.
Thanks, that helped. I wasn't aware that wpa_supplicant controls non-wpa connections, too.
Jörg.
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2009-08-21 21:11 mac80211: reassociate in STA mode after AP was power-cycled Joerg Albert
2009-08-21 21:23 ` Johannes Berg
2009-08-21 23:15 ` Joerg Albert [this message]
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