After sys/net80211 changes in r198931 laptop is no longer associating with AP

Paul B Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Thu Nov 5 14:25:01 UTC 2009


On 11/5/09, Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko <gaijin.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems that 8.0 discussion is still going on on @current... if I
> should have posted this on @stable, please, feel free to chastise me as
> appropriate.
>
> After updating to r198831 my laptop no longer associates with either of
> two APs I have. Rolling back just 'sys/net80211' to r198443 fixes the
> problem.
>
> Working system:
> FreeBSD RabbitsDen.RabbitsLawn.verizon.net 8.0-RC1 FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 #0
> r198443M: Sat Oct 24 14:03:30 EDT 2009
> root at RabbitsDen.RabbitsLawn.verizon.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TPX60  i386
>
> Non-working system:
> FreeBSD RabbitsDen.RabbitsLawn.verizon.net 8.0-RC2 FreeBSD 8.0-RC2 #0
> r198931: Wed Nov  4 20:56:16 EST 2009
> root at RabbitsDen.RabbitsLawn.verizon.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TPX60  i386
>
> APs are is:
> SSID/MESH ID    BSSID              CHAN RATE   S:N     INT CAPS
> AP_SSID         00:1f:33:3b:xx:xx    3   54M -68:-96  100 EP   RSN WPS
> WME
> AP_SSID         00:1f:90:cb:xx:xx    8   54M -73:-96  100 EPS  RSN WPA
> ATH
>
> Relevant piece of wpa_supplicant.conf is:
>
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> ctrl_interface_group=wheel
> eapol_version=2
>
> network={
>   ssid="AP_SSID"
>   scan_ssid=1
>   priority=1
>   proto=WPA
>   key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
>   psk="Really secure something"
> }
>
> APs are set not to broadcast SSID, but enabling broadcast does not
> change much.
>
> Running wpa_supplicant with -d shows that it could not match AP_SSID.
>
> If there is anything else I can provide, please, let me know.

What driver are you using?
Looking into net80211 svn log for that time period I only see mesh hacks ...


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