[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#488309: I can not reproduce this bug

[Erik Saule]

Dear Debain maintainer/users,

I am using wpa-supplicant in roaming mode through the wpa-roam stanza
in /etc/network/interfaces as the bug reported indicated. However, I
can not reproduce his bug on my laptop. The differences I see are:

-original reporter was using wpasupplicant in version 0.6.3-2, while I
 am using 0.6.10-2.1
 
-original reported was using driver iwl3945 while I am using the
 driver iwlagn

You will find at the end of this email a extract of a root session
showing the expected (working) behavior, with some configuration
information.

So I believe this bug has either been fixed since 2008 or is linked to
a particular wireless driver.

I hope this helped.

Erik

eriklaptop:~# dmesg | tail #currently connected.
[ 3336.202294] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 3339.077279] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:23:69:4b:93:1a (try 1)
[ 3339.080627] wlan0: direct probe responded
[ 3339.080636] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:23:69:4b:93:1a (try 1)
[ 3339.082726] wlan0: authenticated
[ 3339.082790] wlan0: associate with AP 00:23:69:4b:93:1a (try 1)
[ 3339.085054] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:23:69:4b:93:1a (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=10)
[ 3339.085061] wlan0: associated
[ 3339.109549] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 3349.652012] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
eriklaptop:~# ifdown wlan0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.1.1-P1
Copyright 2004-2010 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:1d:e0:26:eb:d7
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:1d:e0:26:eb:d7
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE on wlan0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
eriklaptop:~# dmesg | tail -n 1 # only one new line
[ 3672.388121] wlan0: deauthenticating from 00:23:69:4b:93:1a by local choice (reason=3)
eriklaptop:~# ps aux | grep wpa | grep -v grep
eriklaptop:~# ifup wlan0
eriklaptop:~# dmesg | tail -n 14 # only 14 new lines
[ 3680.295461] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::radio
[ 3680.295478] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::assoc
[ 3680.295504] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::RX
[ 3680.295519] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::TX
[ 3680.349319] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 3683.267123] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:23:69:4b:93:1a (try 1)
[ 3683.464112] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:23:69:4b:93:1a (try 2)
[ 3683.470104] wlan0: direct probe responded
[ 3683.470111] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:23:69:4b:93:1a (try 1)
[ 3683.475614] wlan0: authenticated
[ 3683.475686] wlan0: associate with AP 00:23:69:4b:93:1a (try 1)
[ 3683.480883] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:23:69:4b:93:1a (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=10)
[ 3683.480889] wlan0: associated
[ 3683.502658] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
eriklaptop:~# /sbin/ifconfig wlan0
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1d:e0:26:eb:d7  
          inet addr:192.168.1.113  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21d:e0ff:fe26:ebd7/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:7971 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3433 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:3567081 (3.4 MiB)  TX bytes:496329 (484.6 KiB)

eriklaptop:~# lspci -nn | grep Wireless 
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection [8086:4230] (rev 61)
eriklaptop:~# uname -a
Linux eriklaptop 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 7 21:35:22 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
eriklaptop:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
      wpa-driver wext
      wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

iface columbus inet dhcp

eriklaptop:~# cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=root

network={
        ssid="ParasiteNet"
        id_str="columbus"
        scan_ssid=1
        key_mgmt=NONE
}

eriklaptop:~#