misc/173917: wpa-supplicant issues on iwn

[Tomasz CEDRO]

>Number:         173917
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       wpa-supplicant issues on iwn
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Nov 25 23:10:00 UTC 2012
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tomasz CEDRO
>Release:        FreeBSD 9.1-RC3
>Organization:
CeDeROM
>Environment:
FreeBSD mercury 9.1-RC3 FreeBSD 9.1-RC3 #0 r242324: Tue Oct 30 00:58:57 UTC 2012     root at farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>Description:
When connecting with IWN Intel WiFi interface in my Dell Latitude E4310, very often I need to kill and restart wpa_supplicant in order to get back the connection. It seems that wpa_supplicant cannot hold the active connection...

% wpa_supplicant -v
wpa_supplicant v0.7.3
Copyright (c) 2003-2010, Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi> and contributors

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