Re: [ath5k-devel] AP mode support in ath5k

2010-03-12 Thread Joerg Pommnitz
--- Bob Copeland m...@bobcopeland.com wrote: Not really, but running hostap with -t may give more information. The next step after that is to get a packet capture from another station to see what's happening during the exchange.  It could be some problem with open system authentication.

Re: [ath5k-devel] AP mode support in ath5k

2010-03-12 Thread Holger Schurig
Some clients (including mac80211 as client) use probe requests (frame 59) to the AP to find out if they're still connected, e.g. see net/mac80211/work.c for IEEE80211_ASSOC_MAX_TRIES and friends. After the probe without answer, there was still a successfull data exchange, see the ARP

Re: [ath5k-devel] AP mode support in ath5k

2010-03-12 Thread Joerg Pommnitz
It's the client that deauthenticates for some reason. Adresses: The client is 00:13:e8:b5:fa:63, an Intel 4965AGN running the stock Ubuntu 9.10 kernel (e.g. 2.6.31 with whatever patches Ubuntu uses). The AP is 00:02:6f:23:11:de, an AR5212 with 2.6.33 and hostapd-0.7.1 I'm in a very noisy

[ath5k-devel] association and authentication problem

2010-03-12 Thread Andrea Rossato
Hello, I have an eee pc 904h with an Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01), and, since linux-2.6.32, I'm experiencing two distinct problems: - wpa_cli reassociate doesn't work any longer: it will try to authenticate but I keep getting an authentication timeout

Re: [ath5k-devel] AP mode support in ath5k

2010-03-12 Thread Joerg Pommnitz
--- Bob Copeland m...@bobcopeland.com wrote: Also, your quality may vary widely depending on how noisy the environment is; we don't do noise immunity yet and that can make a big difference (usually only matters once you're connected, though). Bob, I think you are right on the mark with