Re: wl127x: Unable to associate with a WPA2-PSK AP

["José Miguel Gonçalves" <jose.goncalves@inov.pt>]

On 10-07-2013 09:48, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 14:22 +0100, José Miguel Gonçalves wrote:
>> On 09-07-2013 13:42, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:27 PM, José Miguel Gonçalves
>>> <jose.goncalves@inov.pt> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Any more ideas on how to debug this? Is there any specific debug_level mask
>>>> that can apply to the driver to help it?
>>> You can try the mask 0x63c20 (it's pretty verbose, so I would put it
>>> in pastebin).
>>>
>>> Perhaps this is a genuine problem with the antenna of the card?
>> Nope. The AP is 1 meter away form my board (even without antenna in the
>> card it should associate).
> Too strong a signal can also cause problems, because of distortion.
>
>
>>> Can
>>> you verify the RSSI of the AP is ok using iw?
>> The iw output:
>>
>> http://pastebin.com/XmEzqjHs
> This looks okay, but the RSSI value cannot be trusted blindly.  There
> are other factors that can influence the signal quality, such as the
> SNR.
>
>
>> The dmesg output with debug mask set to 0x63c20:
>>
>> http://pastebin.com/zGE0Gfp8
>>
>> Note that with debug activated I did not see the driver's "Beacon loss
>> detected" messages.
> There could be some timing issue here.  Is it always like that? Do you
> *always* see the "Beacon loss" messages without debugging and *never*
> with debugging?
>

Yep, is always like that!

José Gonçalves