[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#546542: wpasupplicant: roaming does not work here too

[Micha Lenk]

Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.6.4-3
Followup-For: Bug #546542

Hi,

apparently this bug is also affecting Debian Lenny. When I get roamed to
another access point wpasupplicant(?) fails to authenticate at the AP.
In /var/log/daemon.log I found the following lines:

Jan  7 15:01:36 ian NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant connection state:  completed -> associating 
Jan  7 15:01:36 ian NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant connection state:  associating -> associated 
Jan  7 15:01:40 ian NetworkManager: <debug> [1262872900.003604] periodic_update(): Roamed from BSSID 00:0B:0E:23:F5:0B (dukath-rzx) to 00
:0B:0E:23:EB:CA (dukath-rzx) 
Jan  7 15:02:09 ian NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant connection state:  associated -> disconnected 
Jan  7 15:02:09 ian NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant connection state:  disconnected -> scanning 
Jan  7 15:02:10 ian NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant connection state:  scanning -> associated 
Jan  7 15:02:10 ian NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant connection state:  associated -> disconnected 
Jan  7 15:02:10 ian NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant connection state:  disconnected -> scanning 

... with the last three lines repeated again and again without success.
(I'm using network-manager 0.7.1-1~bpo50+1 from backports.org).

I've now solved the problem by providing the BSSID 00:0B:0E:23:F5:0B in the
network-manager settings, which apparently prevents any roaming attempts.

Regards
  Micha

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.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                   2.7-18           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.1-5+lenny1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libpcsclite1            1.5.3-1          Middleware to access a smart card 
ii  libreadline5            5.2-3.1          GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8             0.9.8g-15+lenny5 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)
pn  wpagui                        <none>     (no description available)

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