ath0 and reason 25
Eric Schuele
e.schuele at computer.org
Thu Mar 10 20:02:36 PST 2005
Sam Leffler wrote:
> Kevin Downey wrote:
>
>> I have a dlink card that uses the ath0 driver. a DLW520. And when a
>> try to connect to an AP I get an error in dmesg "ath: association
>> failed (reason 25)" followed by the BSSID of the AP. Is there a list
>> of "reasons" somewhere? I have tried on an open AP a closed AP with
>> WEP w/o WEP and I always get the same error. The card sees the AP
>> fine. kismet finds it no problem. Sometimes wicontrol -i ath0 -L will
>> show the AP and sometimes not.
>> I have tried looking around in /src/sys/dev/ath and /src/sys/net80211
>> for "
>> reasons" but my understanding of C / BSD internals is not very deep.
>
>
> You don't mention what OS version you're running.
>
> trouble% grep STATUS /usr/include/net80211/ieee80211.h|grep 25
> IEEE80211_STATUS_SHORTSLOT_REQUIRED = 25,
>
> So the AP and station are not agreeing on how to configure the slot
> time. This may have something to do with the 11g configuration of your
> AP--e.g. did you fix long or short slot time in the AP? OTOH if you're
> running 5.x then there are some bugs in the 11g support that have been
> fixed in current and might cause this.
Will these fixes find their way to 5.x?
-Eric
>
> Sam
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Regards,
Eric
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