Assoc problems

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Saturday 27 March 2004 01:35, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> I started to have strange problem: when I try to associate
> with my AP, in AP syslog I see:
>
> kernel: wlan0: STA 00:05:5d:fa:58:2b TX rate lowered to 55
> kernel: wlan0: 00:05:5d:fa:58:2b auth_cb - frame was not ACKed
> kernel: wlan0: 00:05:5d:fa:58:2b auth_cb - frame was not ACKed
> kernel: wlan0: STA 00:05:5d:fa:58:2b TX rate lowered to 20
> kernel: wlan0: 00:05:5d:fa:58:2b auth_cb - frame was not ACKed
> kernel: wlan0: 00:05:5d:fa:58:2b auth_cb - frame was not ACKed
> kernel: wlan0: STA 00:05:5d:fa:58:2b TX rate lowered to 10
> kernel: wlan0: 00:05:5d:fa:58:2b auth_cb - frame was not ACKed

I found it. The culprit was:

iwpriv wlan0 beacon_int 1000

I tested various values now, anything greater than 101 gives me
this problem.

Seems like this thing is worst at very short distances,
STAs which are far away aren't too affected (they associate within
a minute at most, while at 1 meter distance it may take tens of
minutes.

I'm a bit puzzled _why_ does beacon interval matter at all??
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vda