WPA2 Issues in Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

[Bryan Moore]

I think that's where my problem is a little different, since I use neither
network-manager nor wicd.

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 05:25 -0500, Bryan Moore wrote:
> > Thanks... I figured that was going to be the answer, but was hoping
> > someone would just write-back "oh, it's this..."
> > :-(
>
> It's almost never that simple :)
>
> > Here's one I started in UbuntuForums, here's my Launchpad bug, here's
> > one of the others, and I've attached some of command outputs specific
> > to my system.
>
> The Syslog.txt in that first Launchpad bug shows a lot of:
>
> Jul 18 17:17:28 molly kernel: [25847.724098] wlan0: no probe response from
> AP 00:13:d3:81:ac:d6 - disassociating
>
> It looks from that bug report that NM is working correctly, but often
> the driver simply disconnects you because the AP is not responding to
> probe requests, or the driver has a bug which causes it to miss the
> probe responses.
>
> Dan
>
> > Thanks, again.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi> wrote:
> >
> >         On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:52:13PM -0500, Bryan Moore wrote:
> >         > There are *many* questions regarding some basic networking
> >         problems in
> >         > Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 and the forum
> >         (http://www.ubuntuforum.org/)
> >         > provided me little direction in this single case, so I
> >         thought I'd go to the
> >         > source.
> >         >
> >         > It would *seem* there is a problem with wpa_supplicant in
> >         Ubuntu right now;
> >         > some, me being one, are having *serious *networking issues
> >         when using WPA2.
> >         > There are some threads discussing it and a bug has been
> >         filed in Launchpad,
> >         > but most focus on a Network-Manager issue rather than
> >         wpa_supplicant. Some
> >         > have also reported the issue either greatly diminishes or
> >         disappears
> >         > completely when switching from WPA2 to WPA.
> >         >
> >         > Could you advise me where to begin my little investigation?
> >
> >
> >         You could start by providing some more details of the issue or
> >         a pointer
> >         to such description (like a full URL to a thread discussing
> >         this or a
> >         specific bug in Launchpad). As far as this mailing list is
> >         concerned,
> >         getting a verbose debug log from wpa_supplicant (both success
> >         and
> >         failure case) and description of which driver you are using
> >         would also
> >         be quite helpful.
> >
> >         --
> >         Jouni Malinen                                            PGP
> >         id EFC895FA
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