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[Cy Schubert]

In message <2f0ab2c2-b7cc-3dae-2d65-ea3c4a9515cb at daemonic.se>, Niclas 
Zeising w
rites:
> [ sending this again since I missed the list the first time, apologies 
> if anyone receives a duplicate ]
>
> On 07/19/18 13:57, Kyle Evans wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 4:51 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote
> :
> >> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 11:48:03AM +0300, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> >>> ...
> >>> Yesterday I updated my notebook (with iwm(4)) and also noticed that
> >>> wi-fi connection periodically breaks. /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant restart
> >>> wlan0 helps. After your message I reinstalled wpa_supplicant from old
> >>> source and now it works stable already about 2 hours.
> >>
> >> So, right now, we have broken wpa_supplicant(8) in -CURRENT? :-/
> > 
> > Well, "broken". It's incredibly stable outside of rekeying events, and
> > further testing shows that I don't actually notice these disconnects
> > most of the time because it reassociates fast enough. I noticed it the
> > first time because apparently I had both SSIDs from my AP uncommented
> > in my wpa_supplicant.conf and it decided at that point to connect to
> > the other one, which took a little longer.
> > 
> > Contrary to Andrey's report, though, I don't have to kick
> > wpa_supplicant at all. It will reassociate on its own every single
> > time.
>
>
> Hi!
> I have the exact same problem as Andrey, with the same driver.  I've not 
> investigated very much, but when using the 2.8 wpa_supplicant the wifi 
> network dies after a little while, and I have to restart it (usually 
> with /etc/rc.d/netif restart).  Then it works for a little while, before 
> going down again.  With the old wpa_supplicant I didn't have this problem.
>
> I don't have very much else to add except noting that I'm affected as 
> well. I haven't had time to debug it properly (which is why I've never 
> reported it)

Do these events happen at regular intervals as Kyle experienced or 
randomly?

What sort of key_mgmt do you connect with to your AP? Could it be 
WPA-EAP?


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