Subject: Re: regression after partial vmlocking merge (was: ath(4)
To: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 08/06/2007 14:33:37
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:41:42 -0500
David Young <dyoung@pobox.com> wrote:


> 
> Are the client and the AP both little-endian?  ISTR somebody fixed an
> endianness bug in hostapd and/or wpa_supplicant.
> 
> I suggest looking very closely at what hostapd and wpa_supplicant can
> tell you about the disconnections.  Does a statistic shown by
> 'ifconfig -v ath0' increase with the disconnections?
> 
I was seeing disconnection problems using just WEP.  I haven't had time
to follow up.  This week, though, I'll be at a conference using
unencrypted 802.11; I'll see what happens.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb