Storming and age

KC <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.ipw2100.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

I noticed that with certain access points the card sometimes connects 
normally and then disassociates either due to storming or age. What exactly 
does it mean and why does it happen? I think it is something about the 
configuration of the access points because some of them always have this 
problem, others work just fine (unfortunately, the ones that give trouble 
are not controlled by me so I cannot check or change any configurations 
there). Attached is dmesg of one such case. Apparently it associated 
successfully once, but then disassociated and complained about storming, 
after another few minutes it complained about age. Is there something I can 
tweak to make it work?

Regards,

KC

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ipw2200: U ipw_best_network Network 'Al (00:11:22:33:44:55)' is a viable match.
ipw2200: U ipw_associate_network Assocation attempt: 'Al', channel 6, 
802.11g [12], long[:long], enc=off.
ipw2200: U __ipw_send_cmd SSID command (#8) 2 bytes: 0x00000023
00000000 41 6C                                              Al
ipw2200: I ipw_irq_tasklet Command completed.
ipw2200: U __ipw_send_cmd SUPPORTED_RATES command (#22) 16 bytes: 0x00000023
00000000 02 0C 00 00 82 84 8B 96  24 30 48 6C 0C 12 18 60   ........ $0Hl...`
ipw2200: I ipw_irq_tasklet Command completed.
ipw2200: U __ipw_send_cmd SYSTEM_CONFIG command (#6) 20 bytes: 0x00000023
00000000 00 00 00 00 01 00 01 00  01 00 00 01 00 00 00 1E   ........ ........
00000010 00 00 01 00                                        ....
ipw2200: I ipw_irq_tasklet Command completed.
ipw2200: U ipw_associate_network Association sensitivity: -84
ipw2200: U __ipw_send_cmd SENSITIVITY_CALIB command (#42) 4 bytes: 0x00000023
00000000 1C 00 00 00                                        ....
ipw2200: I ipw_irq_tasklet Command completed.
ipw2200: U __ipw_send_cmd QOS_PARAMETERS command (#25) 96 bytes: 0x00000123
00000000 0F 00 0F 00 0F 00 0F 00  FF 03 FF 03 FF 03 FF 03   ........ ........
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........ ........
00000020 1F 00 1F 00 1F 00 1F 00  FF 03 FF 03 FF 03 FF 03   ........ ........
00000030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........ ........
00000040 0F 00 0F 00 0F 00 0F 00  FF 03 FF 03 FF 03 FF 03   ........ ........
00000050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........ ........
ipw2200: I ipw_irq_tasklet Command completed.
ipw2200: U __ipw_send_cmd ASSOCIATE command (#21) 40 bytes: 0x00000123
00000000 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 02  00 14 BF C7 F1 66 30 00   ........ .....f0.
00000010 00 00 30 F5 5C 6A 01 04  0A 00 64 00 00 14 BF C7   ..0.\j.. ..d.....
00000020 F1 66 00 00 00 00 00 00                            .f......
ipw2200: I ipw_irq_tasklet Command completed.
ipw2200: U ipw_associate_network associating: 'Al' 00:11:22:33:44:55
ipw2200: I ipw_rx_notification authenticated: 'Al' 00:11:22:33:44:55
ipw2200: I ipw_rx_notification associated: 'Al' 00:11:22:33:44:55
ipw2200: U __ipw_send_cmd SYSTEM_CONFIG command (#6) 20 bytes: 0x000000E3
00000000 00 00 00 00 01 00 01 00  01 00 00 01 00 00 00 1E   ........ ........
00000010 00 00 01 00                                        ....
ipw2200: I ipw_irq_tasklet Command completed.
ipw2200: U ipw_deinit Disassociating during shutdown.
ipw2200: U ipw_send_disassociate Disassocation attempt from 
00:11:22:33:44:55 on channel 6.
ipw2200: U __ipw_send_cmd ASSOCIATE command (#21) 40 bytes: 0x01000A63
00000000 06 00 02 00 00 00 00 02  00 14 BF C7 F1 66 30 00   ........ .....f0.
00000010 00 00 30 F5 5C 6A 01 04  0A 00 64 00 00 14 BF C7   ..0.\j.. ..d.....
00000020 F1 66 00 00 00 00 00 00                            .f......
ipw2200: I ipw_irq_tasklet Command completed.

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ipw2200: U ipw_best_network Network 'Al (00:11:22:33:44:55)' excluded 
because of storming (2784ms since last assoc attempt).

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ipw2200: U ipw_best_network Network 'Al (00:11:22:33:44:55)' excluded 
because of age: 251540ms.
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