[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#501859: Bug#501859: wpa_supplicant works with 2.6.27, but not 2.6.26

[Kel Modderman]

On Monday 27 October 2008 18:53:25 Sven Joachim wrote:
> I have a similar (or the same) problem, dhclient fails to obtain an IP
> address from my AP with a 64-bit kernel 2.6.26.5.  However, as
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436923#c1 indicates, this
> seems to be fixed in 2.6.27, since with 2.6.27.4 everything works fine.
> 
> Sorry for not giving more detailed information, but
> /var/log/wpa_supplicant.wlan0.log is empty (how do I enable logging?).

$ zcat /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.Debian.gz | grep -B5 -A1 wpa-debug
In order to debug connection, association and authentication problems,
increase the verbosity level of wpa_supplicant in order to log debug
output to /var/log/wpa_supplicant.$iface.log.

iface eth1 inet dhcp
        wpa-debug-level 3
        ...

Debug level number 3 starts the supplicant with the -ddd command line option,
level 2 with -dd an level 1 with -d. Values of -1 and -2 will cause
wpa_supplicant to be started with -q and -qq options respectively (quiet mode).
Any other wpa-debug-level value will cause the supplicant to be started
with default debug level.

(hmm, one too many 'in order's in the first sentence)

> In any case, here are the stanzas from /etc/network/interfaces:
> 
> ,----
> | allow-hotplug wlan0
> | iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> |       wpa-driver wext
> |       wpa-ap-scan 1
> |       wpa-scan-ssid 1
> |       wpa-ssid "hidden"
> |       wpa-proto WPA RSN
> |       wpa-pairwise CCMP
> |       wpa-group CCMP
> |       wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
> |       wpa-psk "top-secret"
> `----
> 
> Should the bug reassigned to linux-2.6 (or cloned)?

Possibly (force)merged with #498220.

Thanks, Kel.