From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Wu Subject: Re: [PATCH] softmac: Fix WX and association related races Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:35:13 -0400 Message-ID: <200609281135.24720.flamingice@sourmilk.net> References: <200609271726.34305.mb@bu3sch.de> <1159455169.2642.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> <451BE74F.3010908@lwfinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2609213.RG6hEu6Gb4"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dan Williams , Michael Buesch , linville@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Berg Return-path: Received: from smtp.rutgers.edu ([128.6.72.243]:27377 "EHLO annwn14.rutgers.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751919AbWI1Pfx (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:35:53 -0400 To: Larry Finger In-Reply-To: <451BE74F.3010908@lwfinger.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --nextPart2609213.RG6hEu6Gb4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 28 September 2006 11:16, Larry Finger wrote: > First of all, my problem is quite likely caused by a buggy AP. It is a > Linksys WRT54G V5, which is one of those with a VxWorks kernel, not Linux. > I have already reported one bug to Linksys, which they have neither > acknowledged nor fixed! In that case, SoftMAC had to be modified as a > work-around. > These APs are truly bad. Hacking linux into it (DD-WRT) helps a bit, but=20 wireless often seems to fail *completely* at times. > I don't know why the deauthentication is being sent. The reason is not > logged, which will be my first change in the code. The second place to lo= ok > is why SoftMAC reports the network is unknown when the MAC printed is that > of my AP. > The deauth reason code is usually 6 or 7.. IIRC, it is 6: Class 2 Frame fro= m=20 Non Authenticated STA. The AP just forgets you're associated. However, I=20 think that was from when I had a v3 WRT54G. I made sure the old adm8211 softmac stack had a very good set of printks to= =20 report these sort of things. :) Many APs do funny things.. =2DMichael Wu --nextPart2609213.RG6hEu6Gb4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFG+u8T3Oqt9AH4aERAnBAAJ9H3HQMzEjLdK/QCW6cs+kHswEGCQCfeBdZ OF6ywLrVs1NHaiy7uPxHUfk= =B3zR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2609213.RG6hEu6Gb4--