Re: orinoco_cs module and WPA not working

[Giacomo Comes <comes@naic.edu>]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 02:40:44PM +0000, Dave Kilroy wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Giacomo Comes <comes@naic.edu> wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 12:01:34PM +0000, Dave Kilroy wrote:
> >> >> I'm at a loss. I've looked at the wpa_supplicant code, and had another
> >> >> look at the driver. The scan should be a plain wildcard scan - which
> >> >> you've identified works.
> >> >>
> >> >> Does setting scan_ssid=1 in the wpa_supplicant network block change
> >> >> the behaviour? That's usually only necessary for hidden SSIDs - but
> >> >> I'd like to know if the scan succeeds in this case.
> >> >
> >> > No It doesn't work.
> >> > But I have more informations for you.
> >> >
> >> > I have been testing different versions of wpa_supplicant
> >> > and I have found that if a use wpa_supplicant 0.7.0 or earlier,
> >> > it works. With 0.7.1 or newer it fails.
> >> > wpa_supplicant 0.7.0 works even without applying your patch.
> >>
> >> I've set myself up so I can test with orinoco_usb. I can reproduce the
> >> issue (or something that looks the same).
> >>
> >> After much confusion, I suspect the initial scan is being triggered
> >> before the hardware is ready. Internally, wpa_supplicant will do an
> >> 'ifconfig eth1 up' followed by an 'iwlist eth1 scan', and it seems the
> >> driver/hardware wants more time between them.
> >>
> >> Try the following (either in two command prompts, or with
> >> wpa_supplicant in the background):
> >>
> >> prompt1$ wpa_supplicant -dd -ieth1 ....
> >>
> >> prompt2$ ifconfig eth1 down
> >> prompt2$ ifconfig eth1 up
> >>
> >> and see what wpa_supplicant is doing. If it has got scan results then
> >> you're probably seeing what I am.
> >
> > You are right. After running ifconfig eth1 down,up on a second terminal,
> > while wpa_supplicant iis running on the first terminal,
> > it succesfully associates with the AP.
> 
> DOH!
> 
> My speculation above was incorrect. There's a really stupid driver bug
> that's been there ever since I added WPA capability. Patch incoming.

I have been testing your patches and I can confirm that now the orinoco
driver is working properly for me. Using directly wpa_supplicant and using
networkmanager.
Thank you very much for your work.

The only issue still not fixed is the suspend/resume timeout.
Can you help also with that?

Giacomo