I've setup and configured hostapd with b43. For the most part I followed the guide here: http://acx100.erley.org/git.html except that I've used the latest wireless-testing branch. Airodump-ng shows the AP to be beaconing well with an average signal of -49db, while my Windows wireless client shows an average signal strength of -60db. Connecting to the AP, however seems to be a bit problematic. When a connection is established, the link is very unreliable and rather unresponsive. While connecting from Windows XP I was only able to connect at 1Mb. The stability of the connection is so bad that it usually dies within minutes after connecting. Wpa_supplicant under Linux produces similar results. Pings from the station to the AP show severe packet loss with increasing delay for those that are successful (2000 - 4000ms). This is all at a range of about 10ft from the AP while maintaining a clear line of sight. I've found that enabling/disabling encryption doesn't seem to help alleviate any of the issues. Running hostap with -ddd occasionally shows the following output:
STA ca:fe:ba:be:d0:0d sent probe request for our SSID MGMT (TX callback) fail mgmt::proberesp cb or a timeout between the station and the AP during the authentication process. If there's anything I can do to help debug this issue, I'm more than willing to help. Regards, David Ellingsworth _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
