[pkg-wpa-devel] troubles with roaming mode

[Andrei Popescu]

Hello,

I posted this to debian-user (after a week of research and googling), 
but nobody has any ideeas.

I'm trying to configure the roaming mode for wpasupplicant but I don't 
seem to get it right.

After boot (as root or as my user who is in the 'netdev' group):


,----[ /sbin/wpa_cli ]
| wpa_cli v0.6.3
| Copyright (c) 2004-2008, Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi> and contributors
|
| This program is free software. You can distribute it and/or modify it
| under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.
|
| Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of the
| BSD license. See README and COPYING for more details.
|
|
| Could not connect to wpa_supplicant - re-trying
`----

(I have to interrupt it with Ctrl-c)


,----[ ps aux | grep wpa ]
| root      2273  0.0  0.1   4348   964 ?        S<s  21:16   0:00 /sbin/wpa_supplicant -W -B -P /var/run/wpa_supplicant.eth1.pid -i eth1 -D wext -t -ddd -f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.eth1.log -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa-roam.conf
`----


,----[ /sbin/iwconfig ]
| eth1      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"homewlan"  
|           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.442 GHz  Access Point: 00:1B:11:F7:8B:6C   
|           Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=8/0  
|           Retry limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
|           Power Management:off
|           Link Quality=88/100  Signal level=-41 dBm  Noise level=-89 dBm
|           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:1  Rx invalid frag:0
|           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
`----

'homewlan' is my D-Link router and as far as I can read the log the 
connection is ok ('dhclient eth1' will work and assign me an IP), but

,----[ /sbin/ifconfig ]
| eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0e:35:b3:f8:ed  inet6 addr: 
| fe80::20e:35ff:feb3:f8ed/64 Scope:Link
|           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
|           RX packets:24 errors:1 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
|           TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0
|           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
|           RX bytes:1206 (1.1 KiB)  TX bytes:1077 (1.0 KiB)
|           Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe000 Memory:d0200000-d0200fff 
`----

If I 'ifdown/ifup' my adapter it will eventually reconnect to my router 
(after trying all networks in the neighbourhood, though I set a high 
priority for mine) and also make the proper settings according to my 
/etc/network/interfaces

Here are my configs. I hope you can spot some error because I'm banging 
my head against the wall for more than a week now.


,----[ /etc/network/interfaces ]
| # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
| # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
|
| # The loopback network interface
[...]
|
| # The primary network interface
[...]
|
| ## The wireless interface
| #allow-hotplug eth1
| #iface eth1 inet static
| #	wpa-ap-scan 1
| #	wpa-scan-ssid 1
| #	wpa-ssid homewlan
| #	wpa-psk xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| #	address 192.168.77.78
| #	netmask 255.255.255.0
| #	gateway 192.168.77.253
| #	dns-nameservers 192.168.77.253 193.231.233.1 193.231.233.8
|
| allow-hotplug eth1
| iface eth1 inet manual
|	wpa-ap-scan 1
|	wpa-scan-ssid 1
| 	wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa-roam.conf
| 	wpa-debug-level 3
|
| iface homewlan inet static
| 	address 192.168.77.78
| 	netmask 255.255.255.0
| 	gateway 192.168.77.253
| 	dns-nameservers 192.168.77.253 193.231.233.1 193.231.233.8
|
| iface airport inet dhcp
|
| iface default inet dhcp
`----

,----[ /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa-roam.conf ]
| update_config=1
|
| ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
|
| # My networks
| # at home
| network={
|         ssid="homewlan"
| 	  psk="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
|         proto=RSN
|         key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
|         pairwise=CCMP
|         group=CCMP
|         id_str="homewlan"
|         priority=10
| }
|
| # airport
| network={
|         ssid="Hol plecari_11G 2"
|         key_mgmt=NONE
|         id_str="airport"
|         priority=5
| }
|
| ###############################################################################
| # Default behaviour is to associate with any open access point, further
| # networks can be configured with wpa_cli/wpa_gui.
| #
| network={
|         key_mgmt=NONE
| }
`----

Other details you might need (my system is up-to-date sid):

kernel 2.6.24-1-686 (standard Debian)
wireless ipw2200
wpasupplicant 0.6.3-1

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)
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