wpa_supplicant[1282]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 19:27 +0000, Daniel Castro wrote:
> Yeah it's pretty annoying...
> I'm lost...

Is the driver sending a disassociation event?  You'll want '-dddt'
debugging from the supplicant to figure that out.  Or you can run
'iwevent' if you have WEXT support built in.

Dan

> On 18 November 2010 11:12, David Goodenough
> <david.goodenough at btconnect.com> wrote:
>         I have a similar problem, on a small embedded board.  It
>         disassociates
>         every two minutes, and then immediately reconnects.  The AP is
>         good
>         as there is a laptop right beside the unit which is playing
>         BBC Radio 3
>         (classical music) and has almost exactly the same card and
>         software
>         on it, and it never drops a beat.  The only error message I
>         get is a
>         cyrptic Reason: 1, which I understand to be a catchall "other
>         error"
>         reason.  This AP is WPA encrypted, so tracing it is not easy.
>          However
>         if I set up an unencrypted AP it will run without error for
>         hours.
>         
>         Not much help I know, but at least you are not alone.
>         
>         David
>         
>         
>         On Thursday 18 November 2010, Daniel Castro wrote:
>         > Hi,
>         >
>         > No one can help? Can anyone suggest where to go for help on
>         this?
>         >
>         > Thanks!
>         >
>         > On 17 November 2010 10:21, Daniel Castro <castromd at tcd.ie>
>         wrote:
>         > > Hi All,
>         > >
>         > > I hope this is the right place to ask this.
>         > >
>         > > I have a Thinkpad W500 with:
>         > > Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link
>         5300
>         > > I have Ubuntu 10.04 32bit installed:
>         > > Linux danicast-laptop 2.6.32-25-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Sat
>         Oct 16
>         > > 19:48:22 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
>         > >
>         > > I have noticed that it will keep dropping the wireless
>         connection very
>         > > often. So it will disconnect and reconnect.
>         > >
>         > > Can someone here please help me in debugging this issue?
>         Is is a
>         known
>         > > issue? Any workarounds?
>         > >
>         > > I have attached an extract of syslogs from when this
>         happens. But not
>         > > sure if what I need is there... only weird thing I can see
>         is:
>         > > Oct 27 18:58:33 username-laptop wpa_supplicant[1296]:
>         > > CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
>         > >
>         > > Any help is much appreciated!
>         > >
>         > > --
>         > > ________________________
>         > >
>         > > Daniel Castro, M.Sc.
>         > > +353 083-318-2058
>         > > dancasmo at gmail.com
>         > > castromd at tcd.ie
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