[CUWiN-Dev] Re: ath0: hardware error

[Bill Comisky]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Bill Comisky wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, David Young wrote:
>
>>  On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 06:49:17PM -0500, David Young wrote:
>> >  On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 06:17:29PM -0500, David Young wrote:
>> > >  I was able to semi-reliably reproduce the lossage you report with
>> > >  'ifconfig ath0 ssid cntwireless.net'.  I have attached a patch I 
>> > >  applied
>> > >  that may have fixed the problem.
>> > > 
>> > >  I see a lot of these messages scrolling up the console when I set ssid
>> > >  cntwireless.net.  No doubt it's because the SSIDs don't agree.  I 
>> > >  remember
>> > >  you mentioned that before.  I will send a second patch that quiets 
>> > >  things.
>> > > 
>> > >  ieee80211_ibss_merge: merge failed, capabilities mismatch
>> > >  ieee80211_ibss_merge: merge failed, capabilities mismatch
>> > >  ieee80211_ibss_merge: merge failed, capabilities mismatch
>> > >  ieee80211_ibss_merge: merge failed, capabilities mismatch
>> > >  ieee80211_ibss_merge: merge failed, capabilities mismatch
>> > >  ieee80211_ibss_merge: merge failed, capabilities mismatch
>> > >  ieee80211_ibss_merge: merge failed, capabilities mismatch
>> > 
>> >  Here are both patches.
>>
>>  Forget the net80211-capmismatch-patch, it does not work as intended.
>>  Do try the ath-lat-patch.
>>
>>  Dave
>> 
>
> I'm still seeing the same results with the ath-lat-patch applied.  With SSID 
> set to cntwireless.net I get a stream of "ath0: hardware error; ..." 
> messages.  I can use 'ifconfig ath0 ssid cuwireless.net' to stop them and the 
> same with cntwireless.net to start them again..

It doesn't seem to be "longer always gives errors and shorter does not". 
Just sitting here repeatedly doing 'ifconfig ath0 ssid <ssid>' on my 
net4511 I get error messages with both short and long SSIDs.  And I've 
been able to get cntwireless.net to not produce errors and cuwireless.net 
to produce errors.  So a certain length won't 100% trigger them. 
However, it does seem that if there are no errors, replacing the SSID with 
one of the same length never seems to trigger them.

And at least once I got errors no matter what SSID until I did 'ifconfig 
ath0 down' and then back up.

bill

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Bill Comisky
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