Saturday, March 30, 2024

Re: wifi hotspot workaround

On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 08:59:49PM +0500, ofthecentury wrote:
> And now something else happened, which seems like a big
> bug.
> athn0 sent a reason 6 deauthentication to my wifi client
> after I cycled the athn0 wifi interface!
> Reason 6 death is class 2 frame received from a nonauthenticated
> station. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds like a major
> bug in the driver.

Or shitty hardware with a helping of possibly not-too-great firmware.

With a bit of luck, any errors from the card itself should be possible to glean
from dmesg output.

(on a side note, I am on the list, the Cc:s are not necessary and in fact
a bit annoying)


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Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
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"Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.

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