On Monday 06 April 2009 05:26:33 David Ellingsworth wrote: > 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.
Well, you know that lots of cards don't work correctly with b43. I bet you're using a BCM4318 flavor. -- Greetings, Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
