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[Niclas Zeising]

On 07/19/18 15:20, Cy Schubert wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 

I do not know if it is random or not, I haven't timed it.  It usually 
happens quite soon after a reboot.  All nets I've tested have been WPA2 
PSK.  I've had the difference connecting to at least two different 
hotspots, once dual band 2.4/5GHz (although the NIC used 2.4GHz) and one 
with only 5 GHz.
Regards
-- 
Niclas