[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#428785: wpasupplicant: losing WiFi connectivity "Connection to wpa_supplicant lost - trying to reconnect"

[Sebastian Niehaus]

Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.5.5-2
Severity: normal


For some reason, wpa_supplicant sometimes loses the connection to wpa_cli
and wpa_supplicant seems to crash.


Connection often runs fine vor several minutes. This is, what wpa_cli
sometimes says:

,----
| <2>Trying to associate with SSID 'propaganda'
| <1>Cancelling scan request
| <1>WPA: using GTK CCMP
| <1>WPA: using PTK CCMP
| <1>WPA: using KEY_MGMT WPA-PSK
| <1>Setting authentication timeout: 60 sec 0 usec
| <1>Associated to a new BSS: BSSID=00:18:84:16:b2:e2
| <1>WPA: using GTK CCMP
| <1>WPA: using PTK CCMP
| <1>WPA: using KEY_MGMT WPA-PSK
| <2>Associated with 00:18:84:16:b2:e2
| 
|  [...]
| 
| <1>Setting authentication timeout: 10 sec 0 usec
| <1>Cancelling scan request
| 'PING' command timed out.
| Connection to wpa_supplicant lost - trying to reconnect
`----

wpasupplicant is not running anymore after this (and I cannot use WiFi
anymore):

,----
| [07:59:48][niehaus at crystalline:/tmp]$ ps aux | grep wpa
| root      4298  0.0  0.1   4104   616 pts/4    S+   Jun13   0:00 wpa_cli
| niehaus  28887  0.1  1.7  13592  8888 pts/0    S+   08:22   0:00 /usr/bin/python -S /usr/bin/reportbug wpasupplicant
| niehaus  29190  0.0  0.2   4432  1356 pts/0    S+   08:30   0:00 vi -c :7 /tmp/reportbug-wpasupplicant-20070614-28887-wjCj0a
| niehaus  29219  0.0  0.1   3700   616 pts/1    D+   08:32   0:00 grep wpa
`----


I use Debian Stable (Sarge), my wifi hardware is an Intel 2100


,----
| [08:35:39][niehaus at crystalline:/tmp]$ lspci -v
| 
| [...]
| 
| 
| 02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)
|         Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2551
|         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
|         Memory at c0214000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
|         Capabilities: <access denied>
`----


I noticed this when connecting to different hardware (La Fonera, 
AVM FritzBox, Linksys WRT54GL)

Any ideas what can be wrong? 


TIA, 

Sebastian 





-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.0.2-1      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                 0.9.8c-4     SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                    3.1-23.1     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

Versions of packages wpasupplicant recommends:
pn  dhcp3-client                  <none>     (no description available)

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