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

[Andrew Baumann]

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.

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.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages madwifi-source depends on:
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-0.1  high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  debhelper                     7.0.15     helper programs for debian/rules
ii  module-assistant              0.10.11.0  tool to make module package creati

madwifi-source recommends no packages.

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