wpa_supplicant fails to connect to mesh network

[Nathan Price]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 3:01 AM, Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:31:28PM -0400, Bob Copeland wrote:
>> Ok, I looked into this a bit more and what is happening is that:
>>
>>  - basic rates have to equal each other between peers,
>>  - in the kernel, only 1 mbps rate is selected as a mandatory rate
>>    (assuming 2.4 GHz) and thus used as the basic rate set, and
>>  - in wpa_supplicant, the ERP mandatory rates are used for basic
>>    rates by default
>>
>> So, this config with wpa_supplicant will probably get them talking
>> (worked for me):
>>
>> network={
>>     [...]
>>     mesh_basic_rates=10
>> }
>
> It sounds like we should make either the kernel code or wpa_supplicant
> (or both) to be able to learn the basic rates in an existing mesh and
> adopt the current settings if there is no explicitly configured value in
> the local configuration. It does not make much sense to me to fail join
> a mesh due to something like this..
>
> --
> Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA

Setting mesh_basi_rates=10 worked.  Thank you very much!

-Nate