Re: odd state reached when AP deauths you after assoc

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 14:19 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
>> <lrodriguez@atheros.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Johannes Berg
>> > <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>> >> On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 11:37 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> >>> I ran into this when ath5k with wpa_supplicant with config file with
>> >>> a wrong password against a Cisco AP. It seems the Cisco AP auths you
>> >>> and lets you assoc but later it deauths you -- I guess after it
>> >>> determines you are auth credentials failed. When this happens I get:
>> >>>
>> >>> mcgrof@tux ~ $ iw dev wlan0 link
>> >>> Authenticated with 00:0b:85:5b:8d:6c (on wlan0)
>> >>> Not connected.
>> >>
>> >> I'm guessing that you're using -Dnl80211. You need this patch, or
>> >> equivalent:
>> >> http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/hostap/all/2009-10-26-12%3a59/deauth-on-disassoc.patch
>> >
>> > Indeed, it fixes my woes, thanks.
>>
>> Well almost, after a while of being connected it then does this:
>>
>> CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
>> CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
>> Trying to authenticate with 00:0b:85:5b:8d:6c (SSID='ATH-GLOBAL' freq=2462 MHz)
>> Trying to associate with 00:0b:85:5b:8d:6c (SSID='ATH-GLOBAL' freq=2462 MHz)
>> Associated with 00:0b:85:5b:8d:6c
>> CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
>> CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
>> Trying to authenticate with 00:0b:85:5b:9a:bc (SSID='ATH-GLOBAL' freq=2412 MHz)
>> Trying to associate with 00:0b:85:5b:9a:bc (SSID='ATH-GLOBAL' freq=2412 MHz)
>> Associated with 00:0b:85:5b:9a:bc
>> CTRL-EVENT-EAP-STARTED EAP authentication started
>> CTRL-EVENT-EAP-STARTED EAP authentication started
>> CTRL-EVENT-EAP-METHOD EAP vendor 0 method 25 (PEAP) selected
>> OpenSSL: tls_connection_handshake - Failed to read possible
>> Application Data error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0)
>>
>> And I then end up with the same:
>>
>> >>> mcgrof@tux ~ $ iw dev wlan0 link
>> >>> Authenticated with 00:0b:85:5b:8d:6c (on wlan0)
>> >>> Not connected.
>
> Might be due to that bssid_changed check I was unsure about -- try
> removing that.

OK will do -- it took a while to trigger so will wait and see if it
happens again, and if it happens often enough I can at least confirm
it would fix it. Otherwise not sure what triggered it. I failed to
check the logs to see what disconnect event exactly triggered.

  Luis