EAP-TLS and wpa_supplicant

[Gunter Burchardt]

> Hello,
> 
> I have a DLINK wireless router (DI-624) and freeradius 1.0.1 setup for
> WPA-EAP using TLS and PEAP for authentication. This set up works very
> well for a Broadcom (bcm43xx) wireless mini PCI card and a DLINK
> DWL-G650 pcmcia card on a Inspiron 8600 running on Windows XP.
> 
> On linux I used the Linuxant Driverloader with the same wireless cards
> and wpa_supplicant 0.2.5. I was able to get TLS and PEAP authentication
> working with the wireless router. However, if the wireless network is
> left idle for about 5 minutes, the network will stop working. When the
> network stop working, the output of wpa_supplicant (at the end of this
> email) can be seen.
> 
> If I have a traffic generator (i.e. ping at 15 seconds interval) going,
> the network stays up.
> 
> I am pretty sure that the problem does not lie in DI-624 nor freeradius
> as this setup works with the same wireless devices under windows.
> 
> Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.

It sounds like power save option of the wireless card. Try to disable
it (I don't know how on this card)

regards
Gunter