Bug#478858: madwifi-source: sometimes doesn't see arp packets

[Celejar]

On Sun, 25 May 2008 09:38:52 +1000
Kel Modderman <kel at otaku42.de> wrote:

> On Thursday 01 May 2008 23:41:04 Celejar wrote:

...

> > all [0].  I'm not sure if the problem occurs without WPA; turning off WPA
> > seems to often require reloading ath_pci before the system will
> > reconnect, and that itself seems to often solve the problem.  If
> > necessary, I suppose I could run the network for a while without WPA.
> 
> This sounds fishy, there should be no need to reload the driver just to connect
> to a bssid of different security properties.
> 
> Do you know if you are using the "wext" or "madwifi" driver backend of
> wpa_supplicant to sustain these WPA connections? The madwifi backend is
> deprecated but provided for backwards compatibility reasons.

ps ax | grep wpa shows wpa_supplicant running with '-D wext'.

> > I'm no network expert, and I may be misdiagnosing the problem.  I will
> > be glad to provide additional diagnostic information at request.
> 
> I am no expert either, sadly I have no idea at all about this problem.

Thanks; I'll report any further useful information I notice.

> Thanks, Kel.

Celejar
--
mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email
ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator