Re: brcmfmac + AP6120 (brcm43362) doesn't connect to WPA2 AP (unprotected ok)

[Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 02/10/15 02:37, Steeve Morin wrote:
> I've managed to get a lease via udhcpc, over and over again, but as
> soon as a scan operation comes along, I am now unable to get a lease.

If you can provide a kernel log running into this situation I might get 
a clue about what is happening.

Regards,
Arend

> On 10 February 2015 at 01:34, Steeve Morin<steeve.morin@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Also, using udhcpc fails to retrieve an IP with a rather strange "error"
>> udhcpc (v1.22.1) started
>> Sending discover...
>> Sending select for 192.168.1.89...
>> Sending select for 192.168.1.89...
>> Sending select for 192.168.1.89...
>> Sending discover...
>> Sending discover...
>>
>> Which leads me to believe this might be due to data being lost somewhere...
>>
>> However, the rare times I managed to make it connect, SSH was
>> functionning normally.
>>
>> Let me know if you need more log.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On 10 February 2015 at 00:06, Steeve Morin<steeve.morin@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> The weird thing is that wpa_supplicant apparently manages to associate
>>> with the AP (but i'm not really sure about that) [1]
>>>
>>> [1] https://gist.github.com/steeve/10a9a643476cea99abf4#file-005-wpa-supplicant-conf
>>>
>>> On 9 February 2015 at 23:17, Steeve Morin<steeve.morin@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> Thanks for answering.
>>>>
>>>> I'm using connmanctl [1]
>>>>
>>>> The funny thing is trying to make this gist, I tried and it connected
>>>> succesfully....
>>>> Could it be a race somewhere?
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://gist.github.com/steeve/10a9a643476cea99abf4#file-004-connmanctl
>>>>
>>>> On 9 February 2015 at 23:00, Arend van Spriel<arend@broadcom.com>  wrote:
>>>>> On 02/09/15 18:57, Steeve Morin wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi linux-wireless,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm running brcmfmac from backports-3.19-rc1-1 on linux 3.10. running
>>>>>> on an arm Amlogic S805 (cortex-a5, arm7) board (CX-S859).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I had to apply multiple custom patches [1]:
>>>>>> - Make sure the wifi chip is on via custom GPIO [1]
>>>>>> - Remove a problematic piece of code related to power manager (will
>>>>>> look into it later) [1]
>>>>>> - Mix the mmc->max_blk_count on the host (would cause a BUG_ON
>>>>>> assertion later on) [2] [3]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After that, I am able to modprobe brcmfmac see wlan0.
>>>>>> The interface correctly scans for wifi aps, and I can connect to
>>>>>> unprotected ones.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It fails, however, to connect to WPA/WPA2 protected aps. I have
>>>>>> attached a debug log obtained with debug=0xffffff [4]
>>>>>> I don't see any errors in it though...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would anyone of you guys have any idea why ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> In the log I don't see any connect attempt. Only seeing a scan completing.
>>>>> So how do you try to connect?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Arend
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks a lot,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>> https://gist.github.com/steeve/10a9a643476cea99abf4#file-backports-power-on-wifi-sdio-patch
>>>>>> [2]
>>>>>> https://gist.github.com/steeve/10a9a643476cea99abf4#file-fix-block-size-patch
>>>>>> [3]
>>>>>> https://github.com/codesnake/linux-amlogic/blob/master/drivers/amlogic/mmc/aml_sdio.c#L317
>>>>>> [4] https://gist.github.com/steeve/10a9a643476cea99abf4#file-003-dmesg-log
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Steeve Morin
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>>>
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