[Orinoco-users] Connection irregularities

[Agustin Guerrero]

Hello:

Information: Desktop computer. Mandriva 2008.

$ lspci -vvv
00:09.0 Network controller: U.S. Robotics Wireless Access PCI Adapter
Model 022415 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC] Unknown device 00e2
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium

TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-

Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
Region 1: I/O ports at d000 [size=128]
Region 2: Memory at dc011000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Region 3: I/O ports at d400 [size=64]

NICID: id=0x8002 v1.0.0 (HWB3163-01,02,03,04 Rev A)
PRIID: id=0x0015 v0.3.0
STAID: id=0x001f v1.5.6 (station firmware)

$ dmesg | grep eth1
eth1: Hardware identity 8002:0000:0001:0000
eth1: Station identity 001f:0006:0001:0005
eth1: Firmware determined as Intersil 1.5.6
eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth1: MAC address 00:90:D1:06:6C:02
eth1: Station name "Prism I"
eth1: ready
eth1: orinoco_plx at 0000:00:09.0
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
martian source 255.255.255.255 from 192.168.2.1, on dev eth1
eth1: no IPv6 routers present

$ dmesg | grep orinoco
orinoco 0.15 (David Gibson <***@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel
Roskin <***@gnu.org>, et al)
orinoco_plx 0.15 (Pavel Roskin <***@gnu.org>, David Gibson
<***@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Daniel Barlow <***@telent.net>)
orinoco_plx: CIS: 01:03:00:00:FF:17:04:67:5A:08:FF:1D:05:01:67:5A:
eth1: orinoco_plx at 0000:00:09.0

The problem:

20:32:05.122835 eth1 New Access Point/Cell address:00:04:E2:8A:63:A2
20:32:11.946708 eth1 Set Encryption key:**
20:32:12.664409 eth1 New Access Point/Cell address:00:04:E2:8A:63:A2
20:32:26.211048 eth1 Scan request completed
20:32:38.140176 eth1 Set Encryption key:**
20:32:38.400084 eth1 Set Encryption key:off
20:32:38.400418 eth1 New Access Point/Cell address:None
20:32:38.406057 eth1 Set ESSID:off/any
20:32:38.411088 eth1 Set Mode:Managed
20:32:38.423076 eth1 Set Encryption key:****-****-** Security mode:open
20:32:38.429091 eth1 Set ESSID:"SMC"
20:32:38.994857 eth1 New Access Point/Cell address:00:04:E2:8A:63:A2
20:32:39.536731 eth1 Scan request completed
20:32:41.117230 eth1 Scan request completed
20:32:41.882991 eth1 Scan request completed
20:32:45.999996 eth1 Scan request completed
20:32:46.678585 eth1 Scan request completed

And so on.

[Pavel Roskin]

Hello!

Post by Agustin Guerrero
20:32:05.122835 eth1 New Access Point/Cell address:00:04:E2:8A:63:A2
20:32:11.946708 eth1 Set Encryption key:**
20:32:12.664409 eth1 New Access Point/Cell address:00:04:E2:8A:63:A2
20:32:26.211048 eth1 Scan request completed
20:32:38.140176 eth1 Set Encryption key:**
20:32:38.400084 eth1 Set Encryption key:off
20:32:38.400418 eth1 New Access Point/Cell address:None
20:32:38.406057 eth1 Set ESSID:off/any
20:32:38.411088 eth1 Set Mode:Managed
20:32:38.423076 eth1 Set Encryption key:****-****-** Security mode:open
20:32:38.429091 eth1 Set ESSID:"SMC"
20:32:38.994857 eth1 New Access Point/Cell address:00:04:E2:8A:63:A2
20:32:39.536731 eth1 Scan request completed
20:32:41.117230 eth1 Scan request completed
20:32:41.882991 eth1 Scan request completed
20:32:45.999996 eth1 Scan request completed
20:32:46.678585 eth1 Scan request completed
And so on.