usb wifi ap remembers the clients and is counting only up to 7

[FreifunkUFO]

so the ap is not able to be used some days..

Jun 12 19:10:27 wbm-ebc5 daemon.info hostapd: usbwlan0: STA c0:9f:42:52:c6:35 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Jun 12 19:10:27 wbm-ebc5 daemon.info hostapd: usbwlan0: STA c0:9f:42:52:c6:35 IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 8)
Jun 12 19:10:27 wbm-ebc5 daemon.notice hostapd: usbwlan0: STA c0:9f:42:52:c6:35 IEEE 802.11: Could not add STA to kernel driver

[FreifunkUFO]

Jun 12 18:59:23 wbm-044f daemon.notice netifd: mgmt (759): Sending renew...
Jun 12 18:59:23 wbm-044f daemon.notice netifd: mgmt (759): Lease of 10.61.71.99 obtained, lease time 1800
Jun 12 19:00:01 wbm-044f cron.info crond[1919]: crond: USER root pid 3259 cmd lua /usr/bin/wbm-fwupdate
Jun 12 19:10:01 wbm-044f cron.info crond[1919]: crond: USER root pid 3344 cmd lua /usr/bin/wbm-fwupdate
Jun 12 19:10:31 wbm-044f daemon.info hostapd: usbwlan0: STA c0:9f:42:52:c6:35 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Jun 12 19:10:31 wbm-044f daemon.info hostapd: usbwlan0: STA c0:9f:42:52:c6:35 IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 8)
Jun 12 19:10:31 wbm-044f daemon.notice hostapd: usbwlan0: STA c0:9f:42:52:c6:35 IEEE 802.11: Could not add STA to kernel driver
Jun 12 19:10:36 wbm-044f daemon.info hostapd: usbwlan0: STA c0:9f:42:52:c6:35 IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to local deauth request
Jun 12 19:14:23 wbm-044f daemon.notice netifd: mgmt (759): Sending renew...
Jun 12 19:14:23 wbm-044f daemon.notice netifd: mgmt (759): Lease of 10.61.71.99 obtained, lease time 1800
Jun 12 19:20:01 wbm-044f cron.info crond[1919]: crond: USER root pid 3442 cmd lua /usr/bin/wbm-fwupdate
Jun 12 19:21:20 wbm-044f daemon.info hostapd: usbwlan0: STA 04:0c:ce:40:5d:06 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Jun 12 19:21:20 wbm-044f daemon.info hostapd: usbwlan0: STA 04:0c:ce:40:5d:06 IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 8)
Jun 12 19:21:20 wbm-044f daemon.notice hostapd: usbwlan0: STA 04:0c:ce:40:5d:06 IEEE 802.11: Could not add STA to kernel driver
Jun 12 19:21:25 wbm-044f daemon.info hostapd: usbwlan0: STA 04:0c:ce:40:5d:06 IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to local deauth request
Jun 12 19:29:24 wbm-044f daemon.notice netifd: mgmt (759): Sending renew...
Jun 12 19:29:24 wbm-044f daemon.notice netifd: mgmt (759): Lease of 10.61.71.99 obtained, lease time 1800
Jun 12 19:30:01 wbm-044f cron.info crond[1919]: crond: USER root pid 3536 cmd lua /usr/bin/wbm-fwupdate
Jun 12 19:40:01 wbm-044f cron.info crond[1919]: crond: USER root pid 3622 cmd lua /usr/bin/wbm-fwupdate
Jun 12 19:44:24 wbm-044f daemon.notice netifd: mgmt (759): Sending renew...
Jun 12 19:44:24 wbm-044f daemon.notice netifd: mgmt (759): Lease of 10.61.71.99 obtained, lease time 1800
Jun 12 19:50:01 wbm-044f cron.info crond[1919]: crond: USER root pid 3736 cmd lua /usr/bin/wbm-fwupdate
Jun 12 19:59:24 wbm-044f daemon.notice netifd: mgmt (759): Sending renew...
Jun 12 19:59:24 wbm-044f daemon.notice netifd: mgmt (759): Lease of 10.61.71.99 obtained, lease time 1800
Jun 12 20:00:01 wbm-044f cron.info crond[1919]: crond: USER root pid 4670 cmd lua /usr/bin/wbm-fwupdate
Jun 12 20:08:47 wbm-044f daemon.info olsrd[2039]: detected duplicate packet with seqnr 11976 from fdba:1:5e93::1 on br-lan.10 (1116 Bytes)
Jun 12 20:10:01 wbm-044f cron.info crond[1919]: crond: USER root pid 5596 cmd lua /usr/bin/wbm-fwupdate
Jun 12 20:14:25 wbm-044f daemon.notice netifd: mgmt (759): Sending renew...
Jun 12 20:14:25 wbm-044f daemon.notice netifd: mgmt (759): Lease of 10.61.71.99 obtained, lease time 1800

[FreifunkUFO]

root@wbm-f9e0:~# iw usbwlan0 station dump | grep m
inactive time: 12870 ms
signal: -84 dBm
signal avg: -82 dBm
preamble: short
inactive time: 260670 ms
signal: -88 dBm
signal avg: -81 dBm
preamble: short
inactive time: 7860540 ms
signal: -78 dBm
signal avg: -77 dBm
preamble: short
inactive time: 13564100 ms
signal: -66 dBm
signal avg: -63 dBm
preamble: short
inactive time: 23559240 ms
signal: -77 dBm
signal avg: -78 dBm
preamble: short
inactive time: 53691140 ms
signal: 0 dBm
signal avg: 0 dBm
preamble: short
inactive time: 59172930 ms
signal: -92 dBm
signal avg: -91 dBm
preamble: short

[FreifunkUFO]

[FreifunkUFO]

sometimes its working correct

[FreifunkUFO]

maybe we should run another cronjob? the "wifi" command is going like this: (screenshot)

[corny]

Any news on this issue? I experience the same problem on a current Raspbian with hostapd 1.0-3 and a TP-Link TL-WN821N v3 adapter

Apr 27 21:10:47 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 78:6c:1c:31:e2:e5 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Apr 27 21:10:47 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 78:6c:1c:31:e2:e5 IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 8)
Apr 27 21:10:47 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 78:6c:1c:31:e2:e5 IEEE 802.11: Could not add STA to kernel driver
Apr 27 21:10:52 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 78:6c:1c:31:e2:e5 IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to local deauth request
Apr 27 21:10:55 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 78:6c:1c:31:e2:e5 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Apr 27 21:10:55 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 78:6c:1c:31:e2:e5 IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 8)
Apr 27 21:10:55 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 78:6c:1c:31:e2:e5 IEEE 802.11: Could not add STA to kernel driver
Apr 27 21:11:00 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 78:6c:1c:31:e2:e5 IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to local deauth request
Apr 27 21:13:36 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 98:d6:bb:6d:1c:97 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Apr 27 21:13:36 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 98:d6:bb:6d:1c:97 IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 8)
Apr 27 21:13:36 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 98:d6:bb:6d:1c:97 IEEE 802.11: Could not add STA to kernel driver
Apr 27 21:13:39 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 98:d6:bb:6d:1c:97 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Apr 27 21:13:39 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 98:d6:bb:6d:1c:97 IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 8)
Apr 27 21:13:39 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 98:d6:bb:6d:1c:97 IEEE 802.11: Could not add STA to kernel driver
Apr 27 21:13:43 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 98:d6:bb:6d:1c:97 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Apr 27 21:13:44 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 98:d6:bb:6d:1c:97 IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 8)
Apr 27 21:13:44 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 98:d6:bb:6d:1c:97 IEEE 802.11: Could not add STA to kernel driver
Apr 27 21:13:49 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 98:d6:bb:6d:1c:97 IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to local deauth request
Apr 27 21:13:54 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 98:d6:bb:6d:1c:97 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Apr 27 21:13:54 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 98:d6:bb:6d:1c:97 IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 8)
Apr 27 21:13:54 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 98:d6:bb:6d:1c:97 IEEE 802.11: Could not add STA to kernel driver
Apr 27 21:13:59 pi hostapd: wlan1: STA 98:d6:bb:6d:1c:97 IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to local deauth request

Update: My problem is related to this issue:
https://www.mail-archive.com/ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org/msg10187.html