hosapd madwifi wpa2 drops connection and then won't reauth

smellyfis

so i am having some weird problems.
i can connect to my ap for a period of time and then it drops the connection and then when i try to connect to it again it doesnot let me
i've tried from both windows xp and my ps3 and it happens the same on both of them

if i do a complete restart it works fine again for a period of time then drops again

kernel: gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r5
madwifi: trunk (because the one in portage (0.9.4) doesn't work at all)
hostapd: 0.6.3-r1

/etc/conf.d/net

smellyfis · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:14 pm Post subject:

bump!

it would be nice for some help i don't know what i have wrong
i thank you in advance
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Ion Silverbolt · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2004 Posts: 203

If you get this problem from XP, then it's not a Gentoo problem. Sounds like a hardware problem to me. Either the wifi card or the router. You might check into a firmware update for the router.

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:07 am Post subject:

Try a different kernel version, like something in the .22 family. That family supports wireless very well, especially if you are using ndiswrapper.

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smellyfis · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:29 am Post subject:

i can't use ndiswrapper because i need the card to work in master mode because it is my wireless router

after awhile i get a timeout error something like in my dmesg NETDEV WATCHDOG wifi0 TIMEOUT

well it is the routers problem and the wifi card because mhy desktop is my router which is where the wlan card is not working right from

the not being able to authinticate is a xp problem but after a while my ps3 loses connection and then can't authinticate even after /etc/init.d/xxx restart where xxx is every program related to my router eg iptables dnsmasq net.ath0 net.br0 hostapd
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pappy_mcfae · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:38 pm Post subject:

Be that as it may, getting wireless going can be very tricky. There are so many kernel versions out there that simply suck at wireless, it is better to try a kernel that doesn't suck as much, if only to be assured that you problem isn't hardware based. From my experience, and from what I have read in the forums here and other places, the .22 kernels give the best wireless support.

Therefore, it would be wise to start out with a kernel that supports your hardware, and move on to where the hardware stops being supported.

Good luck

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Simba7 · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:16 am Post subject:

I agree 100%. After I *DOWNGRADED* my server to .25, I basically lost all AP functionality without it locking up on me.

I'll try *UPGRADING* my server to .22 and see what happens. I'd really like to get my card working as an AP again.

Does the .22 series have the rather major kernel bug (the one that involves becoming root after compiling and executing a program)? Also, can I use linux-headers-2.6.23 with a .22 kernel?

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 8:04 am Post subject:

smellyfis · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 3:42 pm Post subject:

so i changed to a .22 kernel (gentoo-2.6.22-r

and i still got the same NETDEV WATCHDOG wif0 TIMEOUT ERROR

it always seemed to happen when the cron did a test so i changed from vixie-cron to fcron no difference so i changed back to to a newer kernel 2.6.25-r6
and got the same netdev error so i took hostap out of the of the picture (rebooted with it NOT in boot stuff) still timed out after a while so i updated to the latest madwifi revision (been using svn because portage one doesn't install properlly) and still get the problem
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smellyfis · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject:

oh this is what dmesg looks like