[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#542917: iwl3945 fickly connect

[Chris Burkhardt]

Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.6.9-3
Severity: normal

I'm also using wpa_supplicant with the Intel iwl3945 driver, and have
experienced the same or a similar problem:

On boot, associating with my wireless AP is automatic and successful.
After resuming from suspend or hibernation, however, wpa_supplicant goes
into a loop of repeatedly associating to the AP and then "wlan0:
deauthenticating by local choice (reason=3)", providing very
intermittent network connectivity.

I can get back reliable connectivity by killing all wpa-related
processes, and then running '/etc/init.d/networking restart'

This started with kernel 2.6.30 from Testing, but also exists with a
vanilla 2.6.31 kernel I compiled.

I've found that removing the symlink at '/etc/pm/sleep.d/action_wpa'
(provided by the wpasupplicant package) appears to fix the issue. At
least now, when resuming from suspend, my wireless network connection is
immediately and reliably available. Does that give anyone a clue as to
where the problem is?

Thanks,
Chris Burkhardt


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.20090914.noinitrd (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.110      add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libnl1                        1.1-5      library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libpcsclite1                  1.5.5-1    Middleware to access a smart card 
ii  libreadline5                  5.2-6      GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8k-4   SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

wpasupplicant recommends no packages.

Versions of packages wpasupplicant suggests:
pn  libengine-pkcs11-openssl      <none>     (no description available)
ii  wpagui                        0.6.9-3    graphical user interface for wpa_s

-- no debconf information