ath0 and reason 25

[Eric Schuele]

Sam Leffler wrote:
> Kevin Downey wrote:
> 
>> I have a dlink card that uses the ath0 driver. a DLW520. And when a
>> try to connect to an AP I get an error in dmesg "ath: association
>> failed (reason 25)"  followed by the BSSID of the AP. Is there a list
>> of "reasons" somewhere? I have tried on an open AP a closed AP with
>> WEP w/o WEP and I always get the same error. The card sees the AP
>> fine. kismet finds it no problem. Sometimes wicontrol -i ath0 -L will
>> show the AP and sometimes not.
>> I have tried looking around in /src/sys/dev/ath and /src/sys/net80211 
>> for "
>> reasons" but my understanding of C / BSD internals is not very deep.
> 
> 
> You don't mention what OS version you're running.
> 
> trouble% grep STATUS /usr/include/net80211/ieee80211.h|grep 25
>         IEEE80211_STATUS_SHORTSLOT_REQUIRED     = 25,
> 
> So the AP and station are not agreeing on how to configure the slot 
> time.  This may have something to do with the 11g configuration of your 
> AP--e.g. did you fix long or short slot time in the AP?  OTOH if you're 
> running 5.x then there are some bugs in the 11g support that have been 
> fixed in current and might cause this.

Will these fixes find their way to 5.x?

-Eric
> 
>     Sam
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Regards,
Eric