iwconfig: Invalid misc

[David Everly]

Hello,

I am seeing continuously increasing numbers in "Invalid misc" of of
iwconfig when using hostap-driver-0.2.0 (hostap_pci).  This also
happens
when using version 0.1.3.  I do not see this when using orinoco_pci.
(I'm not using this as an access point.)  What is this?  Should I be
concerned?  How should I fix it?
                                                                       
                                                                       
                
Thanks,
Dave.
                                                                       
        
Here is some information, please let me know if I should provide more:
                                                                       
        
Debian testing/sarge
                                                                       
        
uname -a
Linux elbert 2.6.3-1-686 #1 Sun Mar 14 21:57:54 MST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
                                                                       
        
wireless-tools 26+27pre9-2
hostap-driver 0.2.0
                                                                       
        
>From /etc/network/interfaces:
                                                                       
        
        wireless_enc          restricted
        wireless_essid        ########
        wireless_key          ##########################
        wireless_mode         managed
                                                                       
        
iwconfig wlan0

wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"Syndere11a"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437GHz  Access Point:
00:06:25:5D:A7:47
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:597C-5C91-66B8-BF68-2205-96E9-CF   Security
mode:restricted
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:48/70  Signal level:-52 dBm  Noise level:-100
dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:1701   Missed beacon:0
                                                                       
        
ifconfig wlan0
                                                                       
        
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:06:25:A7:A1:05
          inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.7 
Mask:255.255.255.248
          inet6 addr: fe80::206:25ff:fea7:a105/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2215 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4232 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2151683 (2.0 MiB)  TX bytes:511058 (499.0 KiB)
          Interrupt:10 Memory:c887e000-c887f000

dmesg:
                                                                       
        
hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
hostap_pci: 0.2.0 - 2004-02-15 (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>)
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:09.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:07.2
hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wifi0
wifi0: Original COR value: 0x2
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 196 ms
wifi0: NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.1
wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.7.4
wifi0: Intersil Prism2.5 PCI: mem=0xd9000000, irq=10
wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
prism2: wlan0: operating mode changed 3 -> 2
wifi0: LinkStatus=1 (Connected)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:06:25:5d:a7:47
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c02a2800(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
pnp: Device 00:01.00 activated.
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present


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