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Fri Jan 15 15:06:42 UTC 2010


sometimes think it's associated but in reality it's not. I have to
manually disconnect and reconnect for my connection to work.
I am using iwl3945.

xavier at ex5620 ~> sudo iwconfig wlan0

wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"ulaval-wpa"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Tx-Power=15 dBm
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B
          Encryption key:removed
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0


xavier at ex5620 ~> wpa_cli status
Selected interface 'wlan0'
bssid=00:0e:83:82:ac:41
ssid=ulaval-wpa
id=0
id_str=peap
pairwise_cipher=CCMP
group_cipher=TKIP
key_mgmt=WPA2/IEEE 802.1X/EAP
wpa_state=COMPLETED
Supplicant PAE state=AUTHENTICATED
suppPortStatus=Authorized
EAP state=SUCCESS
selectedMethod=25 (EAP-PEAP)
EAP TLS cipher=AES256-SHA
EAP-PEAPv1 Phase2 method=MSCHAPV2
xavier at ex5620 ~>



--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64

Debian Release: lenny/sid
  990 testing         security.debian.org
  990 testing         gulus.usherbrooke.ca
  500 unstable        gulus.usherbrooke.ca
  500 hardy           ppa.launchpad.net
    1 experimental    gulus.usherbrooke.ca

--- Package information. ---
Depends              (Version) | Installed
==============================-+-==============
libc6               (>= 2.7-1) | 2.7-14
libdbus-1-3         (>= 1.1.1) | 1.2.1-3
libpcsclite1      (>= 1.4.102) | 1.4.102-1
libreadline5          (>= 5.2) | 5.2-3
libssl0.9.8      (>= 0.9.8f-5) | 0.9.8g-13
lsb-base            (>= 3.0-6) | 3.2-20
adduser                        | 3.110





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From: Kel Modderman <kel at otaku42.de>
To: Xavier Douville <debian at douville.org>
Subject: Re: [wpasupplicant] Not always in sync with wireless nic status
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 08:40:03 +1000
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On Tuesday 11 November 2008 09:26:01 Xavier Douville wrote:
> Package: wpasupplicant
> Version: 0.6.4-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> 
> >From the result of these two commands, I can see that wpasupplicant
> sometimes think it's associated but in reality it's not. I have to
> manually disconnect and reconnect for my connection to work.
> I am using iwl3945.
> 
> xavier at ex5620 ~> sudo iwconfig wlan0
> 
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"ulaval-wpa"
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
>           Tx-Power=15 dBm
>           Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B
>           Encryption key:removed
>           Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> 
> 
> xavier at ex5620 ~> wpa_cli status
> Selected interface 'wlan0'
> bssid=00:0e:83:82:ac:41
> ssid=ulaval-wpa
> id=0
> id_str=peap
> pairwise_cipher=CCMP
> group_cipher=TKIP
> key_mgmt=WPA2/IEEE 802.1X/EAP
> wpa_state=COMPLETED
> Supplicant PAE state=AUTHENTICATED
> suppPortStatus=Authorized
> EAP state=SUCCESS
> selectedMethod=25 (EAP-PEAP)
> EAP TLS cipher=AES256-SHA
> EAP-PEAPv1 Phase2 method=MSCHAPV2
> xavier at ex5620 ~>

Associated state does not mean your networking tools have been configured
properly or even used at all. You can be associated, authenticated and not
have any meaningful network connection, they are independent of each other.

This bug report is invalid and I am closing it.

Kel.


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