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:~# -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
