Bug#388137: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#388137: wpasupplicant: immediately disassociates from Apple AirPort Express allowing both WPA and WPA2

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 09:22:41PM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 September 2006 05:43, Marc Haber wrote:
> > when trying to connect to an Apple AirPort Express which is configured
> > to allow both WPA and WPA2, it is necessary to manually set group and
> > pairwise to TKIP. Otherwise the interface will associate and
> > immediately disassociate again, with the wpa_cli error message "WPA:
> > IE in 3/4 msg does not match with IE in Beacon/ProbeResp
> > (src=00:03:93:ee:6d:c7)".
> 
> This could also be a flaw in the access point firmware (quite likely in those 
> agere based ap's). I am not so sure you could blame this completely on 
> wpa_supplicant.

I am not sure as well.

> Perhaps it would be good to send this same report to hostap mailing lists 
> Marc?

Please go ahead and forward. I do not have much time to follow just
another mailing list.

Greetings
Marc

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