[Prism54-devel] Re: Strange problem with wds in prism54

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Friday 08 April 2005 12:19, Jean-Baptiste Note wrote:
> > Here it the log that you asked for:
> >
> > wds_find_device
> > wds_find_device: WDS from mac ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff not in current config,
> > returning NULL
> > [ff][ff][ff][ff][ff][ff][00][02][6f][21][1a][22][08][00][45][00][00][60][62]
> > [9d][00][00][80][11][40][a5][c0][a8][0a][fb][c0][a8][0a][ff][00][89][00][89]
> Maybe Jouni, Luis or Denis can make more sense of this mess; for me to
> go on, would it be possible for you to put some device (may be your
> prism54 card, but ideally some other) in monitor mode and sniff with
> ethereal the frames that are sent on the air by the neighbor WDS device
> ? -- i'd really like to sort out from the above packet which
> transformation the raw 802.11 WDS frame undergoes before being delivered
> to us.
> 
> I don't think i have a working WDS device (maybe madwifi does it ?), so
> it'll be difficult for me to carry out such tests; but i'll try if you
> can't.

I can sniff hostap WDS frames for you easily. Presumably these
are 'known good'.

Maybe I can capture prism54 WDS frames too (currently I ran out
of PCI slots in the box).

Do you want me to do this?
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vda