Instability with ipw2200, wpa_supplicant and hostapd
Gustavo Michels
gustavo.michels
Tue Apr 25 10:23:27 PDT 2006
Hi all,
I set up an access point at my office with hostapd on a computer with a D-Link
DWL-G520 (Atheros) card. Here are the versions I used (Gentoo ebuilds):
- hostapd 0.5.2
- madwifi-ng-0.1502.20060414
My test client, a linux computer with a Intel PRO 2915ABG adapter is
experiencing some connection instability. It will connect fine, but after a
random amount of time, wpa_supplicant will reconnect by itself. I am using
WPA2 with TKIP (btw I can't associate to the AP using CCMP, but that's
another problem).
The problem seems to be really random, as I was unable to find a way to
trigger it. Sometimes it happens every couple minutes, sometimes it will stay
stable for 30 minutes or more.
Here's what I am using in the client (Gentoo, also):
- ipw2200-1.1.2
- ipw2200-firmware-3.0
- wpa_supplicant-0.5.2
At home I have a D-Link DI-624 router (also WPA2-TKIP), where the connection
doesn't seem to suffer from this issue, at least not so frequently, if it
ever happens.
Here are links to the config files for hostapd and wpa_supplicant. I have also
uploaded some log files from both. I started hostapd on the server, then
started wpa_supplicant on the client, which connected fine. After about 10
minutes the reconnect issue happened and that's where the log ends, right
after the client reconnect.
http://colortech.serveftp.net/~gmichels/hostapd.conf
http://colortech.serveftp.net/~gmichels/wpa_supplicant.conf
http://colortech.serveftp.net/~gmichels/hostapd.log
http://colortech.serveftp.net/~gmichels/wpa_supplicant.log
As a side note, I left wpa_supplicant running while I was typing this email,
which took about 20 minutes, and it reconnected about 10 times in this period
of time.
I have looked thru the archives and searched the web, but I couldn't find
anything specific to my issue. I am sorry if this has been addressed before.
I don't know if the issue is on the AP or client or even both, so if anyone
have any ideas, I would be glad to hear.
Thanks for your help,
Gustavo
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