[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#564568: many retries before connection succeeds

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

tags 564568 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi

On Wednesday 23 May 2012, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> Package: wpasupplicant
> 
> I notice that wpa_supplicant sometimes tries many times before the 
> connection eventually succeeds for a particular AP.
> 
> When running under network-manager, it sometimes gives up, and I have to 
> go to the menu and select the AP to make it try again.  I am repeatedly 
> prompted for the WPA password, even though it has the key already.
> 
> When running it from the command line with a simple config file, it 
> keeps retrying and eventually succeeds.
> 
> The system is a Thinkpad X61, lenny amd64.  I am currently trying it 
> with firmware-iwlwifi 0.22, I have also tried 0.18 (from testing) and 
> the 0.14+lenny2 package from lenny.
> 
> network={
>     ssid="SpeedTouch1"
>     key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
>     proto=WPA
>     pairwise=TKIP
>     group=TKIP
>     psk=<hidden>
> }
> 
> 
> lspci -v:
> 
> 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or 
[…]
>     Kernel modules: iwl4965
[…]

There have been significant changes in iwl4965 and wpasupplicant 
meanwhile, even though especially pre-iwlagn still appear to be 
troubled under certain situations, it would be nice to know if this is 
still an open problem for you in >= wheezy (kernel 3.2 and 
wpasupplicant 1.0 ideally).

Please also make sure not to use driver=wext, as nl80211 is the 
strongly preferred method these days - and the default, if left 
unconfigured.

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
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