[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#386090: wpasupplicant: Observing similar issue with iwlwifi

[Kai Hendry]

Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.6.2+git20080206.g8c0dad4-1
Followup-For: Bug #386090

http://wiki.webvm.net/hardware/x61/#index15h2

I have a (hidden) wireless network configured like so:

network={
    scan_ssid=0
    ssid="w"
    key_mgmt=NONE
}

Which wpa_cli is unable to connect to. :/ I work around the problem by
issuing:

	sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid "w" 
	sudo iwconfig wlan0 key off

Before running `sudo ifup wlan0`. Then it's able to get an IP via
dhclient no problem.

If I don't issue the iwconfig commands wpasupplicant can't seem to get
an IP. I have to then typically bring the interface down, issue those
iwconfig commands, and ifup again.

Otherwise wpasupplicant has no problem connecting to WPA secured APs,
but it would be nice if it could manage to join unencrypted ones too.
;)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.105      add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                         2.7-8      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.1.4-1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libpcsclite1                  1.4.99-2   Middleware to access a smart card 
ii  libreadline5                  5.2-3      GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8g-7   SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-24     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

Versions of packages wpasupplicant recommends:
ii  dhcp3-client                  3.1.0-3    DHCP client

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