[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#498220: wpasupplicant: fails to connect with error message "No Suitable AP found" even if configuration is correct

[Jakub Lucký]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Kel Modderman <kel at otaku42.de> wrote:
> On Monday 08 September 2008 18:49:58 Jakub Lucký wrote:
>> Package: wpasupplicant
>> Version: 0.6.4-2
>> Severity: important
>>
>>
>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>>   APT prefers unstable
>>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
>> Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
>>
>> Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
>> 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                       3.110      add and remove users and groups
>> ii  libc6                         2.7-13     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
>> ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.1-3    simple interprocess messaging syst
>> ii  libpcsclite1                  1.4.102-1  Middleware to access a smart card
>> ii  libreadline5                  5.2-3      GNU readline and history libraries
>> ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8g-13  SSL shared libraries
>> ii  lsb-base                      3.2-20     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
>>
>> wpasupplicant recommends no packages.
>>
>> Versions of packages wpasupplicant suggests:
>> pn  libengine-pkcs11-openssl      <none>     (no description available)
>> ii  wpagui                        0.6.4-2    GUI for wpa_supplicant
>>
>> -- no debconf information
>>
>> When I try to connect to our school wireless network, it fails with message "No suitable AP found", even this configuration worked year ago and even on Asus EEE with Xandros yesterday...
>> I am using Thinkpad T61 with IPW 4965, kernel driver iwlwifi and I suppose I am using Debian repository firmware from package "firmware-iwlwifi"
>> My calling of wpa_supplicant is like this: wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicat.conf -i wlan0 -D wext
>>
>> More information will be in attachements
>
> You're using i386 userland with amd64 kernel right? Does it work if you use an
> i386 kernel?
>
> Kel.
>

Hi,
after testing submitting that it works for Debian kernel 2.6.26-1-686,
that's great, it works at least on this kernel

Jakub

Jakub