[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#471905: wpasupplicant: Wpasupplicant works only good if I start it with low Priority

[Kel Modderman]

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On Friday 21 March 2008 16:08:09 Gregor Adamczyk wrote:
> Kel Modderman schrieb:
> > On Friday 21 March 2008 09:57:15 Gregor Adamczyk wrote:
> >   
> >> Package: wpasupplicant
> >> Version: 0.6.3-1
> >> Severity: important
> >>
> >> Hi, if I start or configure wpasupplicant with normal priority, it is not possible to establish 
> >> the WPA2 or WPA connection.
> >>     
> >
> > Show the failing configuration.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >   
> 
> The same config without the "nice" fails.
> 
> /etc/network/interfaces:
> 
> allow-hotplug wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> pre-up wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c 
> "/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf" -D wext; sleep 10;
> post-down killall -q dhclient wpa_supplicant;
> 
> I can reproduce this.
> If I delete only the nice in the pre-up it is much more difficult to 
> establish a connection.
> 
> I test it with:
> ifdown wlan0
> ifup wlan0
> 
> with the low priority of wpa_supplicant,  dhcp works very fast and 
> becomes every time an IP.
> with normal priority, dhclient starts but fails very often.

I cannot reproduce this on a variety of hardware, and I have no way of
guessing of what it could possibly be.

Does anyone else have any ideas?

Thanks, Kel.