[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#428304: should reassociate when ifup fails

[Elmar Hoffmann]

Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.6.0~cvs20070224-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

When ifup of the wireless interface after association fails,
wpa-supplicant happily stays connected (which is useless with an
unusable interface) instead of reassociating (having more luck next
time or eventually choosing a different AP).

The attached patch fixes this.

The interesting case of ifup failure is when using the old dhcp-client
or a dhcp3-client with #420784 fixed, that properly fail when unable
to acquire a lease.
I've been successfully  using the latter with this patch for a while
now.

elmar

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.102      Add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                         2.5-7      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.0.2-5    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libncurses5                   5.5-5      Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5                  5.2-2      GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8e-5   SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

Versions of packages wpasupplicant recommends:
ii  dhcp3-client                  3.0.4-14   DHCP Client

-- no debconf information

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