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Ticket #2019 (new defect)

Opened 14 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

multiple VAP's: mastermode, stationmode - master VAP stops working when station mode VAP is disconnected

Reported by: anonymous Assigned to:
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: madwifi: driver Version: trunk
Keywords: Cc:
Patch is attached: 0 Pending:

Description

AR5212 + madwifi-trunk-r3635-20080517 + wpa_supplicant + hostapd： The problem we met is that: We use both mastermode and stationmode on one single card, when the stationmode can't connect to any AP, the mastermode stops working.

sta:ath1 ap:ath0 *********************************************************************************** ath1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"test4" Nickname:""

Mode:Master Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:17 dBm Sensitivity=1/1 Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:2602-C77F-55F9-8379-F8D5-34C9-A9ED-3CB6 [2] Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-95 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm Rx invalid nwid:1909 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Nickname:""

Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power:17 dBm Sensitivity=1/1 Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-95 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm Rx invalid nwid:1817 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

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use madwifi-0.9.3，the problem disappeared! why the new version has this problem? Thanks for your help.

Change History

07/02/08 09:20:49 changed by saurav.barik@gmail.com

Was it working fine with madwifi-0.9.3?? Unless the station gets associated with an AP, it changes channels. This is the reason why the AP disconnects. ticket #804 discusses this problem as well. Try setting bgscan on the sta vap or fix the channel of the station to operate in a particular channel. I think the issue of both sta and AP co-existence on the same radio, is still there and was never fixed.