wpa_supplicant does not associate till it is restarted ?

[Kel Modderman]

Hi Thomas,

On Friday 04 August 2006 04:52, B Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Debian/Sarge with kernel 2.6.17, ipw3945
> (1.0.5), ipw3945d (1.7.19), ieee80211 (1.1.13) and
> wpasupplicant (0.5.4). I need to restart the wparoamd
> deamon every time I boot up my computer for wpa_supplicant
> to associate. No other change are required just this
> restart. Could you kindly help me pin point the problem.
> Also my office network takes a very long time (5 mins)
> to associate if at all) without the restart.

Your setup looks very specific to the debian scripts, it may be better off 
discussing this on the pkg-wpa-devel mailing lists than making a lot of noise 
here about it. Details at:
	http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-wpa-devel



>
> Here is some information relating to my setup :
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> /etc/networking/interfaces :
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 	metric 1
>
> iface eth1 inet dhcp
>         wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
>         wpa-action /etc/wpa_supplicant/dhclient

Here you use ifupdown hooks to start wpa_supplicant, but below you also 
describe that you start the old (deprecated) system service too. Looks like 
you are very confused. Lets discuss this on the pkg-wpa-devel list. I've been 
writing a lot of documentation to help clear things up.
	http://users.tpg.com.au/sigm/misc/README.txt

I cannot however speculate on problems related to ipw3945, its non-trivial to 
install, imho, and I have not had first hand experience of that.

The fact that your platform is sarge is also a bit strange, how did you 
install such a recent version of the wpasupplicant package for instance makes 
me curious.

Thanks, Kel.


> 	metric 2
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> /etc/init.d/wparoamd:
> is the same file that comes with wpa_suplicant (i.e.
> examples/wpasupplicant.roaming-daemon ) in the
> examples directory but with ENABLE_ROAMING_MODE=1,
> CONFIG="/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf",
> INTERFACE="eth1", and DRIVER="wext"
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf:
> is the same file that comes with wpa_supplicant in the
> examples (i.e. examples/wpa_supplicant.conf.gz ) directory
> but with driver_param="associate=1" and the two network blocks :
> # coffee shop
> network={
>         ssid=""
>         key_mgmt=NONE
>         priority=0
> }
> # office
> network={
>         ssid="office"
>         scan_ssid=1
>         key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
>         eap=PEAP
>         identity="MYID"
>         password="MYPSSWD"
>         phase1="peaplabel=0"
>         phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
>         priority=2
> }
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> /etc/defaults/ifplugd:
> INTERFACES="eth0 eth1"
> HOTPLUG_INTERFACES=""
> ARGS="-q -f -u0 -d10 -w -I"
> SUSPEND_ACTION="stop"
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> /etc/modprobe.d/ipw3945:
> alias eth1 ipw3945
> install ipw3945 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945; sleep 0.5 ;
> /sbin/ipw3945d --quiet remove ipw3945  /sbin/ipw3945d --kill ;
> /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ipw3945
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/ipw3945:
> ipw3945
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Note blacklisting ipw3945 with hotplug is necessary to ensure
> that it is loaded only when requested by wpa_supplicant .
> In anycase removing this does not make a difference but makes
> things worse in that now I have to reload the module after bootup.
>
> I understand I don't need to use ifplugd but again not doing so
> does not solve my problem. Another person suggested I use
> a wpa-roam stanza in my /etc/network/interfaces. But I could not
> find this documented anywhere and am not sure how it is used.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> If I set eth1 to auto in /etc/network/interfaces I get the following
> error message :
> ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0c:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> ipw3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
> ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device
> setsockopt: No such device
> ioctl[SIOC{ADD/DEL}MULTI]: No such device
> ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device
> wpa_driver_wired_init: Could not get interface flags
> Failed to initialize driver interface
> wpa_supplicant: failed to locate ctrl_interface socket, exiting
> run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant exited with return
> code 1
> Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
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> All rights reserved.
>
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> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
>
> eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> Bind socket to interface: No such device
> exiting.
> Failed to bring up eth1.
> done.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> sincerely
> B Thomas
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