Getting WPA to work on ath(4)

[Sam Leffler]

Wilko Bulte wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Today I decided to spend some time getting WPA to work 
> on my Netgear ath(4) card. The base station is a Netgear
> WG602V3.  The AP is configured with WPA-PSK (it cannot do
> anything else).
> 
> To make sure that things are sortof sound on the AP side
> I have setup 2 laptops using Windows with WPA.  Both work
> OK.  
> 
> One of these laptops that has the Netgear card and is dual
> boot with -current.  
> 
> Basically FreeBSD also (but only sortof) works with WPA
> on the ath(4).
> 
> I setup a wpa_supplicant.conf taking the 'home network'
> example from the man page.  
> 
> What I get from wpa_supplicant on a regular interval is:
> 
> Trying to associate with <MAC of AP> (SSID=<foo> freq=2412MHz)
> Associated with <MAC of AP>
> WPA: Key negotiation completeted with <MAC of AP> [PTK=CCMP GTK=TKOP]
> 
> <some time passes; sometimes dhclient gets IP address and data flows
>  to the outside world correctly>
> 
> Disconnect event - remove keys     <--- why is this?
> 
> This process repeats itself over and over.
> 
> Am I missing something obvious?
> 

Actual logs from wpa_supplicant are required to diagnose wpa problems. 
Usually a single -d option is sufficient; -dd is often too verbose. 
Also useful is the output of 80211stats from tools/tools/ath.

	Sam