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Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:31:40 -0600
From: "John H." <mistamaila@gmail.com>
To: "Larry Finger" <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: timeout problems with certain APs and b43
Cc: "Michael Buesch" <mb@bu3sch.de>,
	"John Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
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wrt54gs with latest firmware.

it seems exclusive to linux:O

On Nov 21, 2007 4:18 PM, Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
> John H. wrote:
> >  uname -a
> > Linux laptop 2.6.23.1-49.fc8 #1 SMP Thu Nov 8 21:41:26 EST 2007 i686
> > i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> > fedora 8
> >
> > on certain APs, the internet works for a long time then stops, and I
> > get authentication time outs, why?  It usually works again if I reset
> > the AP itself, which i should not have to do and don't have to if in
> > XP....
> >
> >
> > wlan0: switched to long barker preamble (BSSID=00:0f:66:53:3e:24)
> > wlan0: switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00:0f:66:53:3e:24)
> >
> >
> >
> > wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
> > wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:0f:66:53:3e:24
> > wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:0f:66:53:3e:24
> > wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:0f:66:53:3e:24
> > wlan0: authentication with AP 00:0f:66:53:3e:24 timed out
>
> Do you have the opportunity to capture the wireless traffic with a second computer using Kismet or
> Wireshark when this condition occurs? Without that info, it would be hard to know what might be
> wrong. Of course, I don't have the problem with either of my AP's.
>
> Could you identify the make/model and firmware revisions of any AP's that show this behavior?
>
> Larry
>