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

[Bin Li]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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,

 Thanks a lot, and the dirver is ath9k, it depend on the mac80211,
I'll try to find some log info.
> Dan
>
>> > johannes
>> >
>> >
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