wpa_supplicants disconnects randomly

Dan Williams dcbw
Sun Jul 9 07:03:17 PDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 08:01 -0700, Paloseco wrote:
> I am using wpa_supplicant with an wpa-eap with tkip and ttls and I get
> this when disconnects:
> 
> EAPOL: External notification - portValid=1
> EAPOL: SUPP_PAE entering state AUTHENTICATED
> EAPOL: authWhile --> 0
> EAPOL: idleWhile --> 0
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8b15 len=20
> Wireless event: new AP: 00:00:00:00:00:00
> Setting scan request: 0 sec 100000 usec

That means the driver for your card thinks that it's disconnected from
the access point.  What driver, driver version, card type, and kernel
version do you have?

Dan

> And tries to reconnect again. Sometimes I get this:
> 
> wpa_driver_wext_set_drop_unencrypted
> State: SCANNING -> ASSOCIATING
> wpa_driver_wext_associate
> Setting authentication timeout: 10 sec 0 usec
> EAPOL: External notification - portControl=Auto
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8b06 len=8
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8b1a len=16
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8b15 len=20
> Wireless event: new AP: 00:00:00:00:00:00
> BSSID 00:00:00:00:00:00 blacklist count incremented to 5
> State: ASSOCIATING -> DISCONNECTED
> EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0
> EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0
> CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
> wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=2 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=3 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
> BSSID 00:00:00:00:00:00 blacklist count incremented to 6
> State: DISCONNECTED -> DISCONNECTED
> No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
> EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0
> EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0
> Setting scan request: 0 sec 0 usec
> State: DISCONNECTED -> SCANNING
> Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID)
> Scan timeout - try to get results
> Received 3063 bytes of scan results (15 BSSes)
> Scan results: 15
> Selecting BSS from priority group 2
> 
> Is this a bug or is ok? Thanks.
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