Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 01:27:47 -0600 (CST) From: Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> To: Tobias Roth <freebsd.lists@fsck.ch> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wpa_supplicant keeps de- and reassociating Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.1.00.0803040114590.20755@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet> In-Reply-To: <47C53D40.8070604@fsck.ch> References: <47C53D40.8070604@fsck.ch>
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Tobias Roth wrote: > Hi > > I see the following when I connect to the universitys wlan with > 7.0-PRERELEASE and if_ath0: > > I associate to a wlan using wpa_supplicant. There are several base > stations for the same network around. First-time association works a bit > slow but otherwise well, but then, after a while (quite frequently), > something initiates a rescan, and the connections drops for some time. > The laptops position was not changed during that time. > > Then, most of the time, things fix themselves and the interface > reassociates, but this can take sme time. If I issue "ifconfig ath0" a > few times during one of those dropouts, I can see different channels > being tried, and also sometimes my ssid is shown, sometimes no ssid is > shown during scanning. > > Questions: > > 1) what is causing these deassociate/scan/reassociate cycles? > 2) why is it unsetting the ssid, when I explicitly set it in wpa_conf? > 2) how can I stop this (i.e. keep the current connection after initial > association? Are you using WPA or WPA2? I was seeing this behavior sometimes, and switching to WPA seemed to eliminate it.
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