No, I'm not running a DHCP Client.. These are the logs (I don't know if they can be helpful):<br><br>cs: memory probe 0x30000000-0x31ffffff: excluding 0x30000000-0x31ffffff<br>cs: memory probe 0xe8200000-0xe82fffff: excluding 0xe8200000-0xe820ffff
<br>pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0<br>pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage.<br>pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.<br>pcmcia: see
<a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html">http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html</a> for details.<br>hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'<br>hostap_cs: 0.4.7 - 2005-11-20 (Jouni Malinen <
<a href="mailto:jkmaline@cc.hut.fi">jkmaline@cc.hut.fi</a>>)<br>hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)<br>hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_CARD_INSERTION<br>hostap_cs: setting Vcc=50 (from config)<br>Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
<br>IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1<br>io->flags = 0x0046, io.base=0x0000, len=64<br>hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wifi0<br>wifi0: Interrupt, but dev not OK<br>wifi0: Interrupt, but dev not OK<br>
hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 9, io 0x4040-0x407f<br>prism2_hw_init: initialized in 194 ms<br>wifi0: NIC: id=0x800c v1.0.0<br>wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.1<br>wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.7.4<br>wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
<br>hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'<br>wifi0: Deauthenticate all stations<br><br>Thank you for your answer.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jouni Malinen</b> <<a href="mailto:jkmaline@cc.hut.fi">
jkmaline@cc.hut.fi</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:28:01PM +0200, Gianni Costanzi wrote:
<br><br>> I'm using Hostap 0.4.7 with a Netgear MA401 Wireless Card (with the latest<br>> firmware) on a 2.6.15 kernel and everything works perfectly, apart from a<br>> problem that happens the first time I put the card in master mode: it works
<br>> perfectly, but after few minutes (less than five, usually) the access point<br>> deauthenticates all the stations because the wlan0 interface goes down. If I<br>> set up again wlan0, everything works without other similar problems (for
<br>> hours). I do not think that it is a problem related to hostap, but I'm<br>> asking this to you all just in case that someone has experienced the same<br>> problem and perhaps has solved it.<br><br>Do you happen to be running a DHCP client on the interface? Couple of
<br>minutes could be a timeout for DHCP client and some of the<br>implementations are setting the interface down if they fail to get an IP<br>address..<br><br>--<br>Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA
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