[wpa-supplicant] Can't connect to wifi hotspot

[Jouni Malinen]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 11:44:01AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-04-15 at 10:56 +0200, Gilles wrote:
> > https://pastebin.com/raw/mhumwTkp
> 
> The first attempt successfully associates and 4-way handshakes with the
> AP.  But then there is no DHCP reply, so NetworkManager terminates the
> connection because it cannot get an IP address.
> 
> Then NM asks the supplicant to try again.  The supplicant associates
> successfully, but then never receives the EAPOL frame from the AP that
> starts the 4-way handshake.  After a few seconds (waiting for that
> frame) the driver disconnects from the AP (Reason:
> 15=4WAY_HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT).
> 
> All further attempts result in (Reason: 15=4WAY_HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT).
> 
> This is either a driver/supplicant problem, or an AP problem.  There
> could be a race condition in the supplicant or driver that is
> discarding the EAPOL frame after association but before it's in a state
> to process the start of the 4-way handshake.  If other devices work
> fine with this AP, that's what I'd guess the problem is.

That looks more like a lower layer issue of getting packets through than
some kind of a race condition. In other words, that would require
someone to take a look at the drivers and/or wireless capture to make
more sense to what is happening.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA