On Wed, 2022-11-30 at 20:44 +0100, Matthias G. wrote: > Hello, > > I hope this is the right place to report. I can connect via WiFi to my LTE router with the legacy 'wext' driver but not with 'nl80211'. > > The router is a rebranded version of this one: > https://forum.openwrt.org/t/alcatel-tlc-hh40-lte-router-based-on-openwrt/77580 > > This command fails: > # wpa_supplicant -c wpa-home-lte.conf -i wlan0 > > wlan0: SME: Trying to authenticate with dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 (SSID='<redacted>' freq=2452 MHz) > wlan0: Trying to associate with dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 (SSID='<redacted>' freq=2452 MHz) > wlan0: SME: Trying to authenticate with dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 (SSID='<redacted>' freq=2452 MHz) > wlan0: Trying to associate with dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 (SSID='<redacted>' freq=2452 MHz) > wlan0: SME: Trying to authenticate with dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 (SSID='<redacted>' freq=2452 MHz) > wlan0: Trying to associate with dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 (SSID='<redacted>' freq=2452 MHz) > wlan0: SME: Trying to authenticate with dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 (SSID='<redacted>' freq=2452 MHz) > wlan0: Trying to associate with dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 (SSID='<redacted>' freq=2452 MHz) > wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SSID-TEMP-DISABLED id=0 ssid="<redacted>" auth_failures=1 duration=10 reason=CONN_FAILED > > while this succeeds: > # wpa_supplicant -Dwext -c wpa-home-lte.conf -i wlan0 > > Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument > wlan0: Trying to associate with dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 (SSID='<redacted>' freq=2452 MHz) > wlan0: Associated with dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 > wlan0: WPA: Key negotiation completed with dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 [PTK=CCMP GTK=CCMP] > wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 completed [id=0 id_str=] > > Kernel logs, failure: > Nov 30 20:24:41 papaya kernel: wlan0: authenticate with dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 > Nov 30 20:24:41 papaya kernel: wlan0: bad VHT capabilities, disabling VHT > Nov 30 20:24:41 papaya kernel: wlan0: Invalid HE elem, Disable HE > Nov 30 20:24:41 papaya kernel: wlan0: 80 MHz not supported, disabling VHT > Nov 30 20:24:42 papaya kernel: wlan0: send auth to dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 (try 1/3) > Nov 30 20:24:42 papaya kernel: wlan0: authenticated > Nov 30 20:24:42 papaya kernel: wlan0: associate with dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 (try 1/3) > Nov 30 20:24:42 papaya kernel: wlan0: associate with dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 (try 2/3) > Nov 30 20:24:42 papaya kernel: wlan0: associate with dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 (try 3/3) > Nov 30 20:24:42 papaya kernel: wlan0: association with dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 timed out > Nov 30 20:24:45 papaya kernel: wlan0: authenticate with dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 > Nov 30 20:24:45 papaya kernel: wlan0: bad VHT capabilities, disabling VHT > Nov 30 20:24:45 papaya kernel: wlan0: Invalid HE elem, Disable HE > Nov 30 20:24:45 papaya kernel: wlan0: 80 MHz not supported, disabling VHT > Nov 30 20:24:45 papaya kernel: wlan0: send auth to dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 (try 1/3) > Nov 30 20:24:45 papaya kernel: wlan0: authenticated > Nov 30 20:24:45 papaya kernel: wlan0: associate with dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 (try 1/3) > Nov 30 20:24:45 papaya kernel: wlan0: associate with dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 (try 2/3) > Nov 30 20:24:46 papaya kernel: wlan0: associate with dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 (try 3/3) > Nov 30 20:24:46 papaya kernel: wlan0: association with dc:9b:d6:de:d4:27 timed out > Sounds like the AP is broken and doesn't like some elements wpa_s includes when nl80211 has certain capabilities ... Not sure what we can do about that - maybe there's a way to selectively disable certain capabilities in wpa_s? johannes
