Re: WPA does not connect to bcm43xx-mac80211 when using NetworkManager

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 22:50 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Dan,
> 
> My bcm43xx-mac80211 system generates the following log entries when trying to connect using WPA-PSK
> TKIP controlled by NetworkManager. The same configuration works with bcm43xx-softmac.

So what you're saying here is that NM works with softmac, but doesn't
work with mac80211?

> eth1: Initial auth_alg=0
> eth1: authenticate with AP 00:14:bf:85:49:fa
> eth1: RX authentication from 00:14:bf:85:49:fa (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0)
> eth1: authenticated
> eth1: associate with AP 00:14:bf:85:49:fa
> eth1: RX AssocResp from 00:14:bf:85:49:fa (capab=0x31 status=0 aid=2)
> eth1: associated
> wmaster0: Added STA 00:14:bf:85:49:fa
> eth1: RX deauthentication from 00:14:bf:85:49:fa (reason=15)
> eth1: deauthenticated
> eth1: set_encrypt - unknown addr 00:00:00:00:00:00
> eth1: authenticate with AP 00:14:bf:85:49:fa
> eth1: RX authentication from 00:14:bf:85:49:fa (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0)
> eth1: authenticated
> eth1: associate with AP 00:14:bf:85:49:fa
> eth1: RX ReassocResp from 00:14:bf:85:49:fa (capab=0x31 status=0 aid=2)
> eth1: associated
> eth1: starting scan
> 
> It does the original open authentication and associates, but the final WPA authentication times out.

Hmm; any idea why that happens?  Can we figure out more about the
association process inside the driver?  If it works with wpa_supplicant,
can you increase the debugging output of wpa_supplicant in the NM
sources in nm-device-802-11-wireless.c in supplicant_exec() by adding
another argument to argv with the value '-ddd'?

Thanks!
Dan

> I'm using Michael Buesch's "mb" tree with the "mac80211: use IWEVGENIE" and "mac80211: set enc_capa"
> patches by Michael Wu. My distro is openSUSE 10.2 on an x86_64 system.
> 
> Please advise on any further information I should provide.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Larry