I always need a miracle to connect with iwlwifi

Krishna Chaitanya chaitanya.mgit at gmail.com
Mon Oct 28 07:00:38 EDT 2013


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Looks like there is "maximum clients" feature is enabled in the AP, most AP's
>> send deauth for Auth/Assoc Request but some AP's silently discard the
>> Assoc Request.
>>
>> That explains why it works after reboot/adhoc mode. Try increasing the
>> number if thats the case.
>
> Then why am I able to connect from my phone, other machines, and in
> this machine with Windows 7?
>
So lets say "max clients=5" and first all of your devices except the
linux connec
to the AP, then they have no issues connecting. Now if the linux is
the 6th device
then it might have trouble connecting to the AP?? Its possible.


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