[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#579297: wpasupplicant: wpa_supplicant disconnects and fails to reconnect (wpa-enterprise)

[Agustin Martin]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 09:59:26AM +0200, Georges Toth wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 April 2010 08:42:15 kel at otaku42.de wrote:
> > > Package: wpasupplicant
> > > Version: 0.6.10-2
> > > Severity: grave
> > > Justification: renders package unusable
> > 
> > For your porticular use case maybe, but that does not make a
> > grave severity rating for the package.
> 
> I don't agree as many people use eduroam or a similar network and this problem 
> has been reported oftenly, also on ubuntu.
> Hence it's not a special rare use-case.

Hi,

Not sure if the same problem, but I am also experiencing problems with
wireless connection to eduroam. Box is a Toshiba laptop with an intel
iwl4965, using iwl4965 module in stable (kernel 2.6.26) and iwlagn in
squeeze (kernel 2.6.32). I thought problem was related to the kernel module,
but looking at this bug report that may not be the case. I do not have
access to that box now and will not have until next week, so I am just
adding what I remember from my yesterday's experience with the problem.

With squeeze and stable 2.6.26 kernel wireless to eduroam works although
with some idle periods and some time to establish connection (and without
udev, but that is because old kernels having SYSFS enabled do not work
with squeeze udev, something known and hopefully unrelated).

Real problems appear when using 2.6.32, then I cannot even establish
connection, lots of timeouts. I also see lots of 'Michael MIC failure' lines
in wpa* logs. Not sure if this happened before, because wpa* log lines are
not prefixed by time.

I needed to do some real work with that box, so I connected a wire and
enabled eth0 and put this into my TODO list. If I can, I will try to work
a bit more on this next week, trying to tune timeouts or trying old
wpa_supplicant, in case problem is here instead of in the module itself.

Unfortunately there is no other wireless network available there to try.

Cheers,

PS: I subscribed to this bug report, no need of CC'ing me.

-- 
Agustin