From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
To: "Chris Adams" <cma@cmadams.net>
Cc: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>,
"Larry Finger" <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
b43-dev@lists.infradead.org,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BCM4331 deauthenticates every five minutes
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:58:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C21B7C.2030005@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130619175850.GD4784@cmadams.net>
On 06/19/2013 07:58 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> said:
>> I don't know how/if driver can be responsible for such reconnects.
>> Over all it just TX and RX packets, right? Loosing a signal is
>> something different, that can be related to the driver's bug. But as
>> this happens every 5 minutes... I don't know.
>>
>> Did you try connecting to this AP with any other card and using
>> similar kernel? I wonder if this can be some supplicant / mac80211
>> stack issue...
>
> I just fired up my Thinkpad T510 with an Intel "Centrino Ultimate-N
> 6300" using iwlwifi, and it stays connected (does not appear to drop any
> packets). This is also Fedora 18 x86_64 (slightly older kernel, but
> I've had the problem on the MacBook since I installed it). There are
> other people in the office with the same MacBook hardware (but running
> OS X) that don't appear to be having any trouble either.
>
> The AP appears to be an Adtran (don't know the model).
>
Can you make a capture using a wireless sniffer (using your thinkpad maybe)?
Gr. AvS
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-19 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20130619160911.GB4784@cmadams.net>
2013-06-19 16:35 ` BCM4331 deauthenticates every five minutes Larry Finger
2013-06-19 16:42 ` Chris Adams
2013-06-19 16:57 ` Rafał Miłecki
2013-06-19 17:58 ` Chris Adams
2013-06-19 19:30 ` Rafał Miłecki
2013-06-19 20:58 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2013-06-19 21:11 ` Chris Adams
2013-06-20 8:33 ` Arend van Spriel
2013-06-20 8:36 ` Arend van Spriel
2013-06-20 15:24 ` Dan Williams
2013-06-20 0:28 ` Chris Adams
2013-06-24 13:22 ` Chris Adams
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