Sorry, you were right about the DHCP client.. I've told you immediately
that there was not a DHCP client because there should not be one,
because I didn't need it :) So, it was a configuration problem ;-)<br>
<br>
Thank you,<br>
Gianni<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<br>_______________________________________________<br>HostAP mailing list<br><a href="mailto:HostAP@shmoo.com">HostAP@shmoo.com</a><br><a href="http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/hostap">http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/hostap
</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>| Gianni Costanzi (<a href="mailto:gianni.costanzi@gmail.com">
gianni.costanzi@gmail.com</a>)<br>| (<a href="http://ares.science.unitn.it/~gianni.costanzi/">http://ares.science.unitn.it/~gianni.costanzi/</a>)<br>|<br>| Gentoo Documentation Project (GDP) Member - Italian Translator
<br>| (<a href="http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/">http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/</a>)<br>|<br>| Free Software Foundation Member #3844 (<a href="http://www.fsf.org">www.fsf.org</a>)<br>|<br>| Why GNU/Linux? (
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html">http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html</a>)<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------