What's the meaning of wireless event "AP: 00:00:00:00:00:00"?

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 16:21 +0800, Bin Li wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes at sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 15:14 +0800, Bin Li wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>  It make the wireless connection drops, and the log like below, so
> >> what's the possible reason? Thanks!
> >>
> >> Wireless event: cmd=0x8b15 len=20
> >> Wireless event: new AP: 00:00:00:00:00:00
> >> Setting scan request: 0 sec 100000 usec
> >> Added BSSID 40:f4:ec:7e:17:de into blacklist
> >> CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
> >
> > It means that a) you're using the deprecated WEXT and b) that the AP or
> > driver decided to disconnect :-)
> Thanks. And the problem is that I connect the AP is successful, but
> after some times, it disconnect.
> so the a) option isn't the reason. And do you know what's possible the
> AP or driver decided to disconnect? Thanks!

You'd probably have to enable debugging in the driver to find out.  This
event is simply a generic WEXT "you're disconnected".  If you're
actually using a mac80211 driver, you might see more info in 'dmesg' but
if it's an old non-mac80211 driver then you're out of luck unless you
start debugging the driver.

Dan

> > johannes
> >
> >
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