Bug#386090: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#386090: wpasupplicant: no association to unencrypted network

[Kel Modderman]

On Tuesday 05 September 2006 19:07, Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: wpasupplicant
> Version: 0.5.4-5
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> with the following wpa_supplicant.conf.local, wpasupplicant does not
> associate to unencrypted networks, such as public Hot-Spots:
>
> network={
>         id_str="wlan-open"
>         ssid=""
>         key_mgmt=NONE
> }
>
> network={
>         id_str="wlan-l21"
>         ssid="my-home-network"
>         key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
>         psk=<snip>
> }
>
> network={
>         id_str="wlan-sandra"
>         ssid="girlfriends-home-network"
>         key_mgmt=NONE
>         wep_key0=<snip>
>         scan_ssid=1
> }
>
> Looks like the supplicant does not properly handle the empty ssid
> string as "ANY".


That is your conf file, but how is wpa_supplicant initiated? In other bug 
reports you mention wpa_action, do you use wpa-roam? You use 'id_str' so I 
assume you do, but please give more information about your setup.

You show network blocks, does you conf also contain ap_scan or other 
non-network wpa_supplicant options?

I can think of two things that may be the problem here, but will require some 
more info about your setup, and will try to set up a test case myself.

Quite possibly, having 'id_str' in the "connect-any" block is causing issues. 
Try removing id_str="wlan-open", and allow wpa-roam to fallback to 
the "default" logical mapping.

Take some info from 'wpa_cli -i eth1 status' or 'iwconfig eth1' during and 
after attempted association. 

Thanks, Kel.