[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#579297: wpasupplicant: wpa_supplicant disconnects and fails to reconnect (wpa-enterprise)

[Georges Toth]

Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.6.10-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


I have a strange problem for about half a year now, which is when I connect to 
a WPA-Enterprise WiFi network (eduroam in this case) I loose my connection 
after a certain amount of time, and wpa_supplicant fails to establish a stable 
connection again after that.

So when I loose the connection that is actually the time when the AP requests 
a re-authentication (AFAICT) and wpa_supplicant fails to do this "correctly".

Here some details:
AP:
                    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : 802.1x
                    IE: WPA Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : 802.1x

Wifi card is an Intel Ultimate N 5300

wpa_supplicant config:
        ctrl_interface_group=103
        update_config=1

        network={
        ssid="eduroam"
        key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
        eap=PEAP
        identity="user at domain.tld"
        password="password"
     }

I collected some debug output (using -dd) which contains logs from when 
I first connected to this network, after loosing the connection the first time 
and several re-connection attempts thereafter.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33.2 (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                     2.10.2-7       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.2.1-5+lenny1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libnl1                    1.1-2          library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libpcsclite1              1.5.5-3        Middleware to access a smart card 
ii  libreadline6              6.1-2          GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8               0.9.8n-1       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:
ii  libengine-pkcs11-openssl      0.1.8-2    OpenSSL engine for PKCS#11 modules
ii  wpagui                        0.6.10-2   graphical user interface for wpa_s

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