cfg80211 messages repeat every 120 seconds

[Chris Murphy]

I have an odd duck Internet setup that I have no control over. It's
slow and often unreliable, but I'm particularly curious about all of
these messages that stream into the journal.

http://ur1.ca/ngum5

Maybe the best part is that even gnome-session is confused about this
arrangement:

"An active wireless connection, in infrastructure mode, involves no
access point?"

Any ideas? This is not a high priority question.

[Ed Greshko]

On 08/18/15 11:27, Chris Murphy wrote:
> I have an odd duck Internet setup that I have no control over. It's
> slow and often unreliable, but I'm particularly curious about all of
> these messages that stream into the journal.
>
> http://ur1.ca/ngum5
>
> Maybe the best part is that even gnome-session is confused about this
> arrangement:
>
> "An active wireless connection, in infrastructure mode, involves no
> access point?"
>
> Any ideas? This is not a high priority question.

Yes, don't worry about it.  :-)

I believe I basically just replicated your situation in a VM with a known buggy Wifi dongle that I've not thrown out.  I get momentary sometimes, unnoticeable disconnects, with this hardware and the same log entries show up in my journal.

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 08/17/2015 11:27 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> I have an odd duck Internet setup that I have no control over. It's
> slow and often unreliable, but I'm particularly curious about all of
> these messages that stream into the journal.
>
> http://ur1.ca/ngum5
>
> Maybe the best part is that even gnome-session is confused about this
> arrangement:
>
> "An active wireless connection, in infrastructure mode, involves no
> access point?"

Definitely confused.  I could ask the 802.11 crew, but when I worked on 
.11 (I do 802.15.4 these days), Infrastructure is defined as using 
access points.  Don't know what would be in the BEACON to result in this...
> Any ideas? This is not a high priority question.

[Mike Wright]

On 08/17/2015 08:27 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> I have an odd duck Internet setup that I have no control over. It's
> slow and often unreliable, but I'm particularly curious about all of
> these messages that stream into the journal.
>
> http://ur1.ca/ngum5
>
> Maybe the best part is that even gnome-session is confused about this
> arrangement:
>
> "An active wireless connection, in infrastructure mode, involves no
> access point?"

Is somebody being a comedian?  Sounds like a Haiku ;)

[Ed Greshko]

On 08/18/15 11:27, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Any ideas? This is not a high priority question.

This may also be relevant....

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1118390