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On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Chatre, Reinette
<reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:41 AM, John Goulah  wrote:
>
>  >>  It appears I am still having some issues here with associating.
>  >>  Could this be on the driver end of things?  It doesn't happen with
>  >> another  box (other drivers)
>  >>
>  >>  I can disassociate:
>  >>  $ sudo iwconfig wlan0 ap off
>  >>  $ iwconfig
>  >>
>  >> wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"goulahnet"
>  >>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point:
>  >> Not-Associated           Tx-Power=14 dBm
>  >>
>  >>           Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B
>  >>           Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>  >>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>  >>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>  What I was doing before is showing Invalid:
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>  $ sudo iwconfig wlan0 ap any  (same for auto here)  $ iwconfig
>  >>
>  >> wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"goulahnet"
>  >>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Invalid
>  >> Tx-Power=14 dBm
>  >>
>  >>           Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B
>  >>           Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>  >>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>  >>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>  It does seem a bit random, and I did have it working there for a
>  >>  while, but it looked like if issue ctrl-C to wpa_supplicant  it got
>  >>  into this state, or a reboot.
>  >>
>  >>  Anything I can try here?
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >
>  >
>  > Quick followup, one thing I've found is that I can scan as root and
>  > see my access point in the list:
>  >
>  >          Cell 09 - Address: 00:15:E9:FA:E2:DB
>  >                    ESSID:"goulahnet"
>  >                    Mode:Master
>  >                    Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
>  >                    Channel:11 Quality=84/100  Signal level=-50 dBm
>  > Noise level=-127 dBm
>  >                    Encryption key:on
>  >                    IE: WPA Version 1
>  >                        Group Cipher : CCMP
>  >                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
>  >                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
>  >                    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
>  >                        Group Cipher : CCMP
>  >                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
>  >                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
>  >                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
>  >                              11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24
>  > Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
>  >                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
>  >                    Extra:tsf=00000208dd78c752
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > One time, that even got me associated.  But after removing the module
>  > and trying again to be sure, I'm still showing "Invalid"
>  >
>  > This seems a bit odd to me-  Ideas are appreciated, I'm happy to
>  > debug where appropriate -
>
>  The driver and wpa_supplicant is able to provide more debugging
>  information. Could you please capture debugging from both and submit a
>  bug to http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/?
>
>  wpa_supplicant debugging is obtained by running it with -ddt option
>  driver debugging is obtained by loading driver with debugging enabled
>  (modprobe iwl4965 debug=0x43fff)
>
>  If possible, please annotate logs to indicate what you did at the time.
>


Sure, I'd be glad to do this.  I will note, if I explicitely define my
AP it works fine:
 sudo iwconfig wlan0 ap 00:15:E9:FA:E2:DB


I'll get some more debug info tonight,

Thanks!
John
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