Re: iwlagn broken in next-20090514 and next-20090515

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 09:03 -0700, reinette chatre wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 00:15 -0700, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Add cc's
> > 
> > On Fri, 15 May 2009 12:26:21 +0200 Nico -telmich- Schottelius <nico-linux-next@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Kernel is not authenticating it against the AP anymore with
> > > messages like:
> > > 
> > > [16907.701634] wlan0: associate with AP 00:03:52:4e:f3:d1
> > > [16907.703669] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:03:52:4e:f3:d1 (capab=0x421 status=0 aid=5)
> > > [16907.703672] wlan0: associated
> > > [16907.729958] wlan0: disassociating by local choice (reason=3)
> 
> This is usually printed when your user application (wpa_supplicant,
> network manager, etc.) goes down or disassociates.

Yeah, this is normal and indicates that the supplicant called
SIOCGIWMLME, which could either be triggered internally by the
supplicant, or even more likely, because NetworkManager requests that
the supplicant disconnects nicely before switching networks or taking
the connection down.

Dan

> > > [16907.852112] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:03:52:1b:f8:31 try 1
> > > [16908.052086] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:03:52:1b:f8:31 try 2
> > > [16908.055331] wlan0 direct probe responded
> > > [16908.055335] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:03:52:1b:f8:31
> > > [16908.256065] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:03:52:1b:f8:31
> > > [16908.453689] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:03:52:1b:f8:31
> > > [16908.656037] wlan0: authentication with AP 00:03:52:1b:f8:31 timed out
> 
> Don't know what is going on here. Could your AP be out of reach or not
> responding?
> 
> > > 
> > > Also wpa_supplicant is not happy:
> > > 
> > > + wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -iwlan0 -c /home/user/nico/ethz/wlan/wpa_supplicant.conf
> > > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such file or directory
> > > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such file or directory
> > > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such file or directory
> > > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such file or directory
> > > 
> 
> There were some changes recently to this ioctl, but I am not familiar
> with details. Johannes will know.
> 
> Reinette
> 
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