[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#849077: Bug#849077: wpasupplicant: [Regression] Updating wpasupplicant makes not possible to connect to encrypted WiFi

[Andrew Shadura]

On 22/12/16 17:41, Andrew Shadura wrote:
> On 22/12/16 17:23, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
>> 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Limited BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless 
>> LAN Controller (rev 01) using broadcom-sta-dkms to get the proprietary driver 
>> (sadly the libre one hangs too much). Note: I've checked with both the testing 
>> and sid versions of broadcom-sta-dkms and both fail in the same way.
>>
>> I could not make the systemd override file, but stopping the service and 
>> running it by hand gave me:
>>
>> # /sbin/wpa_supplicant -d -t -u -s -O /run/wpa_supplicant
>> 1482423134.657501: Scan SSID - hexdump_ascii(len=8):
>>      68 65 72 6d 69 6f 6e 65                           hermione        
> 
>> This log happened while trying quite a lot of times to connect.
>>
>> As an interesting note: even if I was running wpa_supplicant "by hand", after 
>> downgrading the package in order to be able to send this mail I had to reboot 
>> the computer to make it work.
>>
>> Of course feel free to send more more debugging tips as you need.
> 
> Sadly, that doesn't give much information to me. However, googling for
> the exact error code together with the hardware led me to this:
> 
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1216302#p1216302
> 
> I don't know whether that makes sense or not, but could you please try that?

Also, there's https://bugs.debian.org/833507 and a related
https://bugs.debian.org/838096, could you please check whether they're
related to your failure?

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrew

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