On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 17:43 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > On 09/09/2013 05:15 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 16:52 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > > >> I have been running rtl8192cu for the past 24 hours without a permanent > >> disconnect. Under NetworkManager, I see some reason 7 deauthentications, but > > > > Running wpa_supplicant with debugging on might shed some light on these; > > basically: > > > > mv /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant / > > killall -TERM wpa_supplicant > > /wpa_supplicant -dddtu <piped to your favorite log file> > > > > and NM should automatically reconnect, and then we can figure out what's > > going on in the supplicant. > > Dan, > > The log of wpa_supplicant associated with the reason 7 disconnects are as follows: So reason 7 is "Incorrect frame type or subtype received from unassociated station" which seems like the AP thinks we got disconnected, and would seem to be a driver/mac80211 issue still, right? > 1380060983.255499: RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=1 ifi_flags=0x1003 ([UP]) > 1380060983.255516: RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'wlan3' added > 1380060983.255588: nl80211: if_removed already cleared - ignore event > 1380060983.255600: Ignore event for foreign ifindex 22 > 1380060983.272257: nl80211: Event message available > 1380060983.272307: nl80211: Delete station 20:e5:2a:01:f7:ea > 1380060983.280211: nl80211: Event message available > 1380060983.280228: nl80211: MLME event 39 > 1380060983.280230: nl80211: MLME event frame - hexdump(len=26): c0 00 3a 01 1c > 65 9d 5a c3 9d 20 e5 2a 01 f7 ea 20 e5 2a 01 f7 ea 30 d2 07 00 > 1380060983.280248: wlan3: Event DEAUTH (12) received > 1380060983.280252: wlan3: Deauthentication notification > 1380060983.280255: wlan3: * reason 7 > 1380060983.280258: wlan3: * address 20:e5:2a:01:f7:ea > 1380060983.280260: Deauthentication frame IE(s) - hexdump(len=0): [NULL] > 1380060983.280264: wlan3: WPA: Auto connect enabled: try to reconnect (wps=0) > 1380060983.280267: wlan3: Setting scan request: 0 sec 100000 usec > 1380060983.280271: Added BSSID 20:e5:2a:01:f7:ea into blacklist > 1380060983.280276: wlan3: Not rescheduling scan to ensure that specific SSID > scans occur > 1380060983.280281: wlan3: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=20:e5:2a:01:f7:ea reason=7 > 1380060983.280283: wlan3: Disconnect event - remove keys Ok, got disconnected with reason 7... > 1380060984.471985: WPA: Group Key - hexdump(len=16): [REMOVED] > 1380060984.471989: wlan3: WPA: Installing GTK to the driver (keyidx=1 tx=0 len=16) > 1380060984.471991: WPA: RSC - hexdump(len=6): 61 44 1a 00 00 00 > 1380060984.472044: wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=22 alg=3 addr=0x492909 > key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=6 key_len=16 > 1380060984.472051: broadcast key > 1380060984.473171: wlan3: WPA: Key negotiation completed with 20:e5:2a:01:f7:ea > [PTK=CCMP GTK=CCMP] > 1380060984.473174: wlan3: Cancelling authentication timeout > 1380060984.473178: wlan3: State: GROUP_HANDSHAKE -> COMPLETED > 1380060984.473183: wlan3: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 20:e5:2a:01:f7:ea > completed (reauth) [id=0 id_str=] And got reconnected after a bit more than one second. So at least it recovers quickly, but the question is more about why the reason 7 happened, and what frames caused it, I think. Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
