Bug#491731: madwifi-source: 0.9.4+r3698 and later no longer work in master mode with hostapd and WPA

[Kel Modderman]

Hi Andrew,

On Tuesday 22 July 2008 03:50:29 Andrew Baumann wrote:
> Package: madwifi-source
> Version: 1:0.9.4+r3698.20080604.hal20080528-1
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> Since upgrading to 0.9.4+r3698.20080604.hal20080528-1, my Squeezebox Duet 
> controller and receiver are no longer able to connect to my WPA-secured wireless 
> network, which is run with a madwifi master (using hostapd 0.5.10-1). This problem 
> was fixed by reverting to 0.9.4~rc2-1.

Is wireless interface in a bridge?

> 
> On the failing version, I see a lot of connections and disconnections in the syslog:
> Jul 21 19:29:33 nutrimatic hostapd: ath0: STA 00:04:20:1a:28:5b IEEE 802.11: associated
> Jul 21 19:29:36 nutrimatic hostapd: ath0: STA 00:04:20:1a:28:5b IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to local deauth request
> Jul 21 19:29:36 nutrimatic hostapd: ath0: STA 00:04:20:1a:28:5b IEEE 802.11: disassociated
> Jul 21 19:29:39 nutrimatic hostapd: ath0: STA 00:04:20:1a:28:5b IEEE 802.11: associated
> Jul 21 19:29:42 nutrimatic hostapd: ath0: STA 00:04:20:1a:28:5b IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to local deauth request
> Jul 21 19:29:42 nutrimatic hostapd: ath0: STA 00:04:20:1a:28:5b IEEE 802.11: disassociated
> (...)
> 
> FWIW, I have tried the relevant versions of madwifi on both 2.6.24 and 2.6.25; the 
> kernel version makes no difference. I have also tried the new 0.9.4+r3772.20080716 
> version in unstable, which fails in the same way.

I had no problem setting up ath0 in ap mode using hostapd for wpa2 auth, using
current madwifi + hostapd packages, dnsmasq for DNS + dhcp and iptables
script for NAT of ethernet connection.

Regressions like this really suck. Sadly if we go back to 0.9.4 many users
have no hardware support at all... And its crunch time for Lenny release...

Thanks, Kel.