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

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

On 11-07-2013 14:59, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> It seems that the wl1273 is not receiving the frames correctly.  What
> happens in the first 3 frames is all normal, but we keep retransmitting
> the auth frame as if the AP hadn't sent us an ACK.
>
> 1. wl1273 sends auth to the AP
> 2. the AP acks the frame
> 3. the AP sends an auth back to us
> 4. we should send an ACK and continue, but instead we retransmit
> And from then on everything is screwed up.
>
> You could try to use the calibrator's RX statistics commands to see if
> you're getting lots of bad frames and such.
>
> This could be a problem in the firmware, but my hunch is that it's RF.
> What kind of antenna are you using?

A standard omni-directional antenna with a 4dBi gain. After I've read your email I 
tried to change the antenna and immediately I got associated with the AP! But it 
was only from a brief period. After that I've made some more tests and I was not 
able to associate again. So it really seems that I've some kind of RF problem with 
my module :-( BTW, my module has dual-band and I've tested in both 2.4 GHz and 5 
GHz bands (with appropriate antennas), both without success.

>
> BTW, you should set a proper MAC address in your NVS too (calibrator's
> set_mac command).  You could first try to set it to 00:00:00:00:00:00,
> which will check if the chip has a MAC in the Fuse ROM and use it from
> there.  If that doesn't work, create your own and set it in the NVS.

I've already verified that the module doen not have a MAC built in. So I leaved 
the "DE:AD:BE:EF:00:00" MAC set, which is as good as another one (for tests), and 
a good reminder that I must add an EEPROM with a MAC address built in to my design.

>
> The TP-Link log is "too clean", missing some frames, we don't see most
> of the ACKs and we don't see the auth frame being sent back from the AP.
>
>

I've captured both files with display filter "wlan.addr == <MAC>". For instance, 
for the log with the wl1273 based module, I used "wlan.addr == DE:AD:BE:EF:00:00". 
It seemed to me the appropriate filter to extract all the traffic related with 
that station, don't you agree?

José Gonçalves