[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#621049: hostapd BMC4306/3 access point not working after squeeze upgrade

[John Parejko]

Package: hostapd
Version: 1:0.6.10-2
Severity: important

Hello,

I am using a 12" powerbook G4 (using the internal BMC4306/3 b43
wireless card) as a NAT/wireless AP/firewall. This worked fairly well
under lenny, with a backported 0.6.10 hostapd from squeeze, though it
would occasionally drop the connection, but restarting hostapd would
clear it up.

Since upgrading to squeeze, I can connect to the AP but the connection
drops out after a few seconds and is not reestablished. DHCP runs and
appears to hand out an IP, but then the wireless link goes stale.  The
same behavior is seen whether I have WPA enabled or not.

I can provide a "-ddt" log of a hostapd session, and a section of
the client log during a connection attempt, if desired.

This may be a problem with the b43 driver/firmware, but all of the
information I have about the problem comes from hostapd itself.

Thank you,
John

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-powerpc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages hostapd depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-10        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libnl1                  1.1-6            library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libssl0.9.8             0.9.8o-4squeeze1 SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

hostapd recommends no packages.

hostapd suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/hostapd changed:
DAEMON_CONF="/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf"
DAEMON_OPTS="-d -t"


-- no debconf information