[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#509203: wpasupplicant: cannot connect to a WEP network

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

tags 509203 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi

On Monday 26 September 2011, Hramrach wrote:
> Package: wpasupplicant
> Version: 0.6.6-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> When I select the default entry, wpa_supplicant happily connects to an open
> network and gets an IP adderess.
> 
> When I select the entry for encrypted network wpa_supplicant
> authenticates .. and then autenticates again, and again.
> 
> According to server logs it authenticates successfully but it never
> finishes the connection to he point where it  would be usable, and
> restarts authentication instead.
> 
> I cannot connect with either wpa_gui, wpa_cli or networ-manager-gnome.
> 
> network-manager-kde does not offer the option to cennect to a wireless
> network in any visible place.
> 
> Fails the same way with the 6.4 package.
> 
> <2>Authentication with 00:13:7f:8c:8b:60 timed out.
> <2>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
> <2>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS 
> <2>Trying to associate with 00:15:fa:d8:95:f0 (SSID='eduroam' freq=2412
> MHz)
> <2>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS 
> <2>Associated with 00:15:fa:d8:95:f0
> <2>CTRL-EVENT-EAP-STARTED EAP authentication started
> <2>CTRL-EVENT-EAP-METHOD EAP vendor 0 method 26 (MSCHAPV2) selected
> <2>CTRL-EVENT-EAP-SUCCESS EAP authentication completed successfully
> 
> > status
> bssid=00:15:fa:d8:95:f0
> ssid=eduroam
> id=1
> id_str=eduroam
> pairwise_cipher=TKIP
> group_cipher=TKIP
> key_mgmt=WPA/IEEE 802.1X/EAP
> wpa_state=ASSOCIATED
> Supplicant PAE state=AUTHENTICATING
> suppPortStatus=Unauthorized
> EAP state=SUCCESS
> selectedMethod=26 (EAP-MSCHAPV2)
> 
> 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212/AR5213
> Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor (rev 01)
> 00:09.0 0200: 168c:0013 (rev 01)
> 
> ath5k 88576 0 - Live 0xdd9cf000
> mac80211 115344 1 ath5k, Live 0xdd9e6000
> led_class 4164 1 ath5k, Live 0xdd951000
> cfg80211 21640 2 ath5k,mac80211, Live 0xdd969000
> 
> -- wpa_supplicant.conf
> ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
> update_config=1
> 
> network={
>         key_mgmt=NONE
>         disabled=1
>         id_str="default"
> }
> 
> network={
>         ssid="eduroam"
>         proto=WPA
>         key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
>         pairwise=TKIP
>         eap=MSCHAPV2
>         identity="XXX"
>         password="XXX"
>         ca_cert="XXX"
>         id_str="eduroam"
> }
> 
> -- interfaces
> 
> 
> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
> 
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo eth0 wlan0
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> # The primary network interface
> allow-hotplug eth0 wlan0 default eduroam
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> #	hwaddress ether address
> 
> iface wmaster0 inet manual
> 
> iface eduroam inet dhcp
> 
> iface default inet dhcp
> 
> iface wlan0 inet manual
> 	 wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-rc5+acpitz-report (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

ath5k had quite some problems up to and including kernel 2.6.31, is 
this still a problem with kernel 3.0 (or at least 2.6.32 in squeeze)?

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann