Re: [ath9k-devel] Can't associate with a particular AP

2011-10-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
I bet it's not an ath9k problem. I bet you're just finding the really high receive sensitivity of the atheros NICs. :) Ie, ath9k is not choosing which AP to associate with. I bet that wpa_supplicant / 802.11 stack is not blacklisting that far-away AP: * because the S/N is too low; * repeated, fai

Re: [ath9k-devel] Can't associate with a particular AP

2011-10-28 Thread Julien Valroff
Le lundi 24 oct. 2011 à 20:59:32 (+0200 CEST), Julien Valroff a écrit : > Hi Alex, > > Le lundi 24 oct. 2011 à 08:27:16 (+0200 CEST), Alex Hacker a écrit : > > Hi guys! > > There is a two APs with the same ESSID on the same frequency. The first has > > a > > signal level 10 times lower then t

[ath9k-devel] connection problem with AR928X

2011-10-28 Thread Changyu Li
Hi, I started having this problem just recently. In short, everything is fine, then no data is received, then after a while, a bunch of data is received at once, most tcp connections are not broken, some timed out though. Wireshark showed that I was still receiving arp broadcasts from the route

Re: [ath9k-devel] Can't associate with a particular AP

2011-10-28 Thread Peter Stuge
Julien Valroff wrote: > > If you happen to have any other wireless cards, they could be > > more suitable for this purpose. > > Unfortunately, I do not have anything on hand. Maybe someone nearby has a CardBus adapter that you can borrow and use for monitoring, if not a complete laptop. //Peter

Re: [ath9k-devel] Can't associate with a particular AP

2011-10-28 Thread Julien Valroff
Le vendredi 28 oct. 2011 à 10:35:19 (+0200 CEST), Jouni Malinen a écrit : > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 06:26:53AM +0200, Julien Valroff wrote: > > Le jeudi 27 oct. 2011 à 22:27:58 (+0200 CEST), Jouni Malinen a écrit : > > > Which drivers did you use in these tests? > > > > brcmsmac and b43 > > brcms

Re: [ath9k-devel] WPA and Apple devices

2011-10-28 Thread Marek Lindner
On Thursday, October 27, 2011 04:19:30 Marek Lindner wrote: > > Does the connection failure happen with both VAPs or only one of them? > > IIRC both VAPs failed but I am going to retest to be certain. The second VAP shows different behavior: * Without encryption one get's a simple "unable to conn

Re: [ath9k-devel] Can't associate with a particular AP

2011-10-28 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 06:26:53AM +0200, Julien Valroff wrote: > Le jeudi 27 oct. 2011 à 22:27:58 (+0200 CEST), Jouni Malinen a écrit : > > Which drivers did you use in these tests? > > brcmsmac and b43 brcmsmac does not support monitor mode. b43 is claimed to support that, but I've never tried.