wpa_supplicant: iwl3945 + EAP-PEAP/MSCHAPv2 (eduroam) == random disconnects

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 20:34 +0100, Pedro Francisco wrote:
> I have random disconnects when connecting to an ESS (eduroam) using
> EAP-PEAP/MSCHAPv2 and iwl3945 (Fedora 17).
> 
> I don't know exactly what the cause is, so I'm asking here (I'm
> probably going to blame the driver since there are so much different
> reasons but I thought I'd gather more opinions first)
> 
> Here's a snippet from the output of wpa_cli (I removed some lines, as
> the connection drops randomly but can hold >30 minutes working fine):
> (connection managed by NetworkManager)

Best thing to do here is run wpa_supplicant with debug logging (ie, with
arguments -dddt) to get more information.  You can do this by stopping
NM, killall -TERM wpa_supplicant, then "wpa_supplicant -dddtu" (as root
of course), then restarting NM, and waiting for the disconnect.  Then we
can see what's actually going on.

When a disconnect happens, NM will wait a certain amount of time for the
supplicant to successfully reconnect to the network before tearing down
the connection and starting another one (or retrying the same one).
Which might be what's happening here.  But that means we need to figure
out *why* the supplicant can't reconnect within the allowed timeframe.

Dan

> { I'm not sure, but I'm assuming the reason list is the one in
> include/linux/ieee80211.h, if so, the reason is the text in "{ }" }
> 
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=b8:62:1f:54:c2:02 reason=2 {
> WLAN_REASON_PREV_AUTH_NOT_VALID }
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:00:00:00:00:00 reason=3 {
> WLAN_REASON_DEAUTH_LEAVING }
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:1f:ca:d2:20:0e reason=10 {
> WLAN_REASON_DISASSOC_BAD_POWER (?? - iwl3945 doesn't support PS on
> station side) }
> 
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-EAP-STARTED EAP authentication started
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-EAP-FAILURE EAP authentication failed
> 
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:00:00:00:00:00 reason=3 {
> WLAN_REASON_DEAUTH_LEAVING ( 00:00:00:00:00:00 ???? maybe it's
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/91796 ) }
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:00:00:00:00:00 reason=3
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=b8:62:1f:54:c2:02 reason=10 {
> WLAN_REASON_DISASSOC_BAD_POWER (?? - iwl3945 doesn't support PS on
> station side) }
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:0f:24:6d:69:0f reason=2 {
> WLAN_REASON_PREV_AUTH_NOT_VALID }
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:0e:d7:09:57:01 reason=2
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:00:00:00:00:00 reason=3 {
> WLAN_REASON_DEAUTH_LEAVING }
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:1f:ca:d2:20:0e reason=10 {
> WLAN_REASON_DISASSOC_BAD_POWER (?? - iwl3945 doesn't support PS on
> station side) }
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:00:00:00:00:00 reason=3 {
> WLAN_REASON_DEAUTH_LEAVING }
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:00:00:00:00:00 reason=3
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:1f:ca:d2:20:0e reason=3
> 
> Any ideas on what to blame?
> 
> Thanks in Advance,