[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#771141: wpasupplicant: Upgrade to wpasupplicant 2 breaks WLAN

[Uwe Storbeck]

Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 2.3-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

after upgrading wpasupplicant from version 1.1-1 to version 2.3-1
wpasupplicant fails to establish a WLAN connection:

# wpa_supplicant -dd -ieth1 -c/tmp/wpa_supplicant.conf
wpa_supplicant v2.3
random: Trying to read entropy from /dev/random
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
Initializing interface 'eth1' conf '/tmp/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 'default' ctrl_interface 'N/A' bridge 'N/A'
Configuration file '/tmp/wpa_supplicant.conf' -> '/tmp/wpa_supplicant.conf'
Reading configuration file '/tmp/wpa_supplicant.conf'
ctrl_interface='/var/run/wpa_supplicant'
Line: 3 - start of a new network block
ssid - hexdump_ascii(len=4):
     74 65 73 74                                       test            
PSK - hexdump(len=32): [REMOVED]
Priority group 0
   id=0 ssid='test'
rfkill: initial event: idx=0 type=1 op=0 soft=0 hard=0
rfkill: initial event: idx=1 type=2 op=0 soft=0 hard=0
nl80211: Supported cipher 00-0f-ac:1
nl80211: Supported cipher 00-0f-ac:5
nl80211: Supported cipher 00-0f-ac:2
nl80211: Supported cipher 00-0f-ac:4
nl80211: Driver does not support authentication/association or connect commands
nl80211: Remove monitor interface: refcount=0
netlink: Operstate: ifindex=3 linkmode=0 (kernel-control), operstate=6 (IF_OPER_UP)
nl80211: Set mode ifindex 3 iftype 2 (STATION)
eth1: Failed to initialize driver interface
Failed to add interface eth1
eth1: Cancelling scan request
eth1: Cancelling authentication timeout

# cat /tmp/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

network={
        ssid="test"
        #psk="12345678"
        psk=fe727aa8b64ac9b3f54c72432da14faed933ea511ecab15bbc6c52e7522f709a
}

The system is a HP Compaq nx8220. WLAN device:
02:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
Loaded kernel modules: ipw2200, libipw, cfg80211, lib80211

Almost all WLANs require WPA and a notebook without working WLAN
is rather useless, hence severity important.

I don't know what other information could be useful so please
tell me if you need anything else.

Regards

Uwe


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (750, 'testing'), (650, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (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/dash

Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii  adduser           3.113+nmu3
ii  libc6             2.19-13
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.8.10-1
ii  libnl-3-200       3.2.24-2
ii  libnl-genl-3-200  3.2.24-2
ii  libpcsclite1      1.8.13-1
ii  libreadline6      6.3-8+b1
ii  libssl1.0.0       1.0.1j-1
ii  lsb-base          4.1+Debian13+nmu1

wpasupplicant recommends no packages.

Versions of packages wpasupplicant suggests:
pn  libengine-pkcs11-openssl  <none>
ii  wpagui                    2.3-1

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