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

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

tags 546542 + moreinfo unreproducible
thanks

On Monday 26 September 2011, Jacob Kanev wrote:
> Package: wpasupplicant
> Version: 0.6.9-3
> Severity: important
> 
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> 
> Roaming with wpa_supplicant does not work, ifup/down does not work together with wpa_supplicant, calling wpa_supplicant directly gives errors.
> 
> Details:
> 
> My /etc/network/intefaces contains:
> iface ath0 inet manual
>         wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
[...]

Your interface name and kernel version suggest that you were using 
madwifi, can you still reproduce this issue using ath5k in recent 
kernels (at least 2.6.32/ squeeze)?

Roaming works reliable using ath5k/ kernel 3.0 (but I have been using 
it with 2.6.32 as well) on:

ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)

> two process have been created:
> 
> 	user at host:# ps aux | grep wpa
> 	root     12476  0.0  0.1   4856   856 ?        Ss   23:09   0:00 /sbin/wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -P/var/run/wpa_supplicant -B
[...]

Please make sure to use nl80211 instead of wext (wpa-driver).

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann