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

[kel at otaku42.de]

severity 579297 important
thanks

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

For your porticular use case maybe, but that does not make a
grave severity rating for the package.

>
>
> 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.

The best place to seek support about this is the hostap mailing
list:

http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/hostap

Thanks, Kel.