Re: iwl3945 fails to associate to open, non-broadcast network

[Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU>]

Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> writes:

> On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 11:24 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Running fedora 7 with kernel-2.6.22.9-91.fc7-i686, trying to
>> connect to a non-broadcasting open network using iwl3945.
>> I see this in dmesg:
>> 
>> eth1: Initial auth_alg=0
>> eth1: authenticate with AP 00:0e:d7:91:94:70
>> eth1: RX authentication from 00:0e:d7:91:94:70 (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0)
>> eth1: authenticated
>> eth1: associate with AP 00:0e:d7:91:94:70
>> eth1: RX AssocResp from 00:0e:d7:91:94:70 (capab=0x0 status=45552 aid=0)
>> eth1: AP denied association (code=45552)
>> eth1: associate with AP 00:0e:d7:91:94:70
>> eth1: RX deauthentication from 00:0e:d7:91:94:70 (reason=2)
>> eth1: deauthenticated
>> 
>> what is status code 45552?  google says nothing about it.
>> I can try downgrading to an older kernel to test.
>> This happens both with and without NM so it's probably a driver
>> bug but I was hoping that the greater NM community might know.
>
> The 45552 sounds bogus; IEEE 802.11 association response codes are
> 8-bits.  Could be some internal status code.

Hey, I'm just reporting what it was reporting.  I have no idea
what it means.  I was finally able to cajole it into connecting
by stopping NM, unloading my driver, reloading my driver, trying
to connect manually, and then (once it connected manually and
actually got scan results with visible ESSIDS) restarted NM.
Then it connected right away and I've been happy.  But it really
does seem to dislike "hidden networks".  :(

> Dan

-derek

PS: Any idea why NM stopped using my local caching nameserver?

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