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 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 look > 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 from Non Authenticated STA. The AP just forgets you're associated. However, I 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 report these sort of things. :) Many APs do funny things.. -Michael Wu
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