Re: Source of Reason 7 disconnects

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

On 04/30/2015 12:57 AM, Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote:
>> Emmanuel and Johannes,
>>
>> I am trying to fix "Reason: 7=CLASS3_FRAME_FROM_NONASSOC_STA"
>> disconnections for the Realtek drivers. When I did a search for similar
>> examples from other drivers, I found some forum entries for the same
>> disconnects happening on Intel
>> 7260 hardware. It appears that the problem was fixed in the 3.16 timeframe.
>> I looked through the iwlwifi commits from that time, but I failed to see any
>> patches that appeared to be appropriate.
>>
>> Do either of you happen to remember what was needed to fix the problem?
>> So far, I have determined that disabling power save helps, but it is not the
>> complete solution.
>>
>
> Oh yeah - this one is annoying. Thing is I don't remember anything specific.
> We had quite a few issues with our firmware that was going deaf for a while.
> That made the AP deauth us, but we couldn't even hear that. So when would
> transmit and assuming the receive path was working again, the AP was kicking
> us out because from its POV, we weren't associated anymore.
> I am sorry I can't point to any commit, but the problem was that we actually were
> disconnected, but didn't know about that.

Thanks for the reply. As far as I can tell, we don't get disconnected without 
knowing about it, but only when the solution is found will we know for sure. 
Thus far, I do not have any over-the-air captures to investigate.

Thanks again,

Larry