Subject: Re: awi/BayStack cards
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: current-users
Date: 11/08/1999 06:21:59
>In the high-AP-density environment of the hotel, roaming clearly
>doesn't work right.  (not surprising, since I only got one AP to play
>with..).  Like itojun, it worked for me for a little while, and then
>it decided it needed to rescan for a new AP for some reason, locked
>into the new AP, and then it stopped working altogether).
>
>I'm going to have to stare at the 802.11 spec some more to see what i
>have to do in order to hand off from one AP to another (I think i may
>have to send a "reassociation request to the new AP" and possibly a
>"deassociation request" to the old one.
>
>mgmt subtype 4 is a "probe request"; according to the firmware doc, it
>is processed by the firmware and should just be discarded by the
>driver..

	I'm seeing another message.  (I'm in the very first laptop row in
	main terminal room, same room as NOC)

>>Nov  7 16:13:50 lychee /netbsd: awi0: received deauth

itojun