wpa_supplicant v0.4.7/0.5.1 authentication timeout / disassociate / associate loop

[thomas schorpp]

thomas schorpp wrote:
> Sunny James Fugate wrote:
> 
>>I am having an impossible time getting the wpa_supplicant to  
>>authenticate using WPA or WPA2 with my wireless router (Airport  
>>Extreme Base Station).  I'm running the 0.4.7 version of hostap and  
>>wpa_supplicant and have gotten things working to the point where  
>>wpa_supplicant is associated with the base station and is in the  
>>midst of the 4-Way handshake.  It seems to just loop round and  
>>continues to receive the following (where 00:00:00:00:00:00 is a  
>>zero'ed version of my correct BSSID)
>>  ----
>> >Associated with 00:00:00:00:00:0
>>. . .
>> >WPA: RX message 1 of 4-Way Handshake from 00:00:00:00:00:00
>>. . .
>> >Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
>>- ----
>>Then the association and authentication and it starts over and loops  
>>forever.
>>
>>I do get a couple of strange things in the debug output.
>>
>> >SIOCGIWRANGE: too old (short) data - assuming WPA is not supported
>> > . . .
>>(I just ignored this as it seemed it was just saying that the pci  
>>card did not support WPA)
>>
>>After it is associated it sends the EAPOL-Key 2/4
>>
>> >WPA: Sending EAPOL-Key 2/4
>>
>>And then it receives message 1 of 4 from the base station again???   
>>Is this a base station error or did the 2nd part of the handshake not  
>>get received by the base station so it is resending the first part?
>>
>> >WPA: RX message 1 of 4-Way Handshake from 00:00:00:00:00:00
>>
>>It just keeps doing this process indefinitely.
>>
>>
>>Is this a known problem with authenticating to some base-stations?   
>>Has anyone else tried this with an Apple Airport Base Station?
>>
>>My Airport logs don't tell me anything that I don't already know,  
>>that it is associating and disassociating.
>>
>>I am completely stuck at this point and seem to have exhausted all  
>>options but browsing the doxygen source code and trying to figure out  
>>what is going wrong.
> 
> 
> -update firmware on the airport, apple eq. was known not to have "real" wpa 
> support before the time tiger was released.
> -the config file below looks strange to me, hopefully corrected.

after updating the ap's firmware try eapol version=2.

> 
> if it still doesnt work, try cvs head. good luck.
> 
> 
>>
>>My config file has gone through a myriad of contortions trying to get  
>>things working.  Its current state is:
>>
>>eapol_version=1
>>ap_scan=1
>>fast_reauth=1
>>
>>network={
>>		ssid="myssid"
>>		scan_ssid=0
> 
> ?- 		bssid=00:00:00:00:00:00
> 
>>		proto=WPA
> 
> +pairwise=TKIP
> +group=TKIP
> 
>>		key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> 
> ?- 		proactive_key_caching=1
> 
>>		auth_alg=OPEN
>>		psk="mypsk"
>>}
>>
>>
>>I have also tried a very simple config with the same results
>>
>>network={
>>		ssid="myssid"
>>		psk="mypsk"
>>}
>>
>>
>>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Sunny Fugate
>>