I also have this problem. It may be because I am sitting too close to my computer which is the ap. However, i don't believe that is the case because I should not have to reaauth just because I am too close to the ap. But, I'm not a radio expert.
So,my setup is I have a router that also provides dhcp services which is connected to a switch which is connected to my ubuntu 10.04 laptop that has a broad com wifi card using the b43 wifi driver. I wanted this computer set up as an ap so I can use my iPad in my dorm (wired only Internet). so I Researched and set up my ubuntu laptop up so it has a bridge between eth0 and wlan0 so I don't have to run dnsmasq or dhcp3-server on my laptop since those services are already provided by my router. In my hostapd config file I have it set up so that the driver is the nl80211 and I have the bridge set to br0. So, after getting this to finally work by using the 'brctl setfd br0 0' command and setting up the hostapd config to have wpa2 authenticAtion, I was able to share the wired connection with my wifi only devices. However, for some reason i will frequently get deathbed and my device will reauth Automatically. It was happening much more frequently than the 10 minutes specified as the default value for the wpa rekeying specified in this bug. As a side note, I had to do all of this because the network gui in ubuntu did not make it so I could just click the share button and share my wired connection over wifi. For some reason, the wireless network just did not show up. Probably becaUse of driver issues with my wifi card because if I did iwconfig wlan0 mode Master I would get an error saying it could not set the mode. 'SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument' I even followed the directions on the wiki for doing Internet sharing over wifi using ubuntu, and it did not work. This way using a bridge between wlan and eth0 And using hostapd I am able to share my wired connection securely with my devices. -- hostapd frequent deauthenticates https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570100 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
