[ath9k-devel] WPA and Apple devices

[Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 04:00:03AM +0200, Marek Lindner wrote:
> These combinations don't work:
>  * 2x VAP, WPA on VAP#1 only
>  * 2x VAP, WPA on both

Is that WPA or WPA2? Does the connection failure happen with both VAPs
or only one of them?

> The Apple devices would complete the WPA handshake (according to the hostapd 
> logs) and then issue a "disassociate". On the device itself the user is 
> presented a timeout error message.

That sounds like some message at the end of the EAPOL key exchange or
data after that did not go through properly.

> It looks like the mac80211/ath9k driver gets confused when WPA is activated on 
> VAP#1. Furthermore, other all non-Apple device seem to work fine.
> Any idea how to debug it further ?

Would you be able to capture all the frames exchanged between the AP
and the station with a wireless sniffer? It would be interesting to see
sniffer capture both for a successful and failed connection attempts.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA