Bug 812576

Summary:	Wireless Virtual stations do not work
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Sergio Belkin <sergiobelkin>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	John W. Linville <linville>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	16	CC:	gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda
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Fixed In Version:	kernel-3.3.2-1.fc17	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Sergio Belkin 2012-04-15 02:10:07 UTC

Description of problem:

Virtual Wireless Station don't work


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

3.3.1-3

How reproducible:

Try to create Wireless Virtual interfaces as stations

Steps to Reproduce:
1.iw --debug phy phy0 interface add  sta0 type station
2.macchanger -r sta0
3.ip link set dev sta0 up
4.wpa_supplicant -t -i sta0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/psk.conf  
  
Actual results:

1334448658.278371: Trying to associate with 00:XX:70:XX:af:13 (SSID='dd-wrt' freq=2437 MHz)
1334448678.286869: Authentication with 00:XX:70:XX:af:13 timed out.



Expected results:

1334455656.073019: Trying to associate with 00:1a:70:5e:af:13 (SSID='dd-wrt' freq=2437 MHz)
1334455656.093922: Associated with 00:1a:70:5e:af:13
1334455656.115676: WPA: Key negotiation completed with 00:XX:70:XX:af:13 [PTK=CCMP GTK=TKIP]
1334455656.115734: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:XX:70:XX:af:13 completed (auth) [id=0 id_str=]



Additional info:

It works with earlier versions such as 3.3.0-8.fc16.x86_64

Comment 1 Sergio Belkin 2012-04-15 02:42:18 UTC

The same happens using kernel 3.3.1-5.fc16.x86_64
Thanks in advance

Comment 2 Sergio Belkin 2012-04-15 03:00:42 UTC

Sorry I forget to mention:

lspci output:

Slot:   07:00.0
Class:  Network controller
Vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
Device: AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
SVendor:        Lenovo
SDevice:        Device 30a1
Rev:    01
Driver: ath9k
Module: ath9k

Sorry HTH

Comment 3 Josh Boyer 2012-04-15 14:18:05 UTC

There's a known regression in ath9k in 3.3.1.  Should be fixed soon, right John?

Comment 4 John W. Linville 2012-04-16 14:26:38 UTC

I would expect 3.3.2 to address the issue.

Comment 5 Josh Boyer 2012-04-16 14:35:43 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> I would expect 3.3.2 to address the issue.

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=313130

Build, but not filed as an update yet.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-04-16 19:07:50 UTC

kernel-3.3.2-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-3.3.2-1.fc16

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2012-04-16 19:11:08 UTC

kernel-3.3.2-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-3.3.2-1.fc17

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2012-04-16 21:57:45 UTC

Package kernel-3.3.2-1.fc17:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing kernel-3.3.2-1.fc17'
as soon as you are able to, then reboot.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-5994/kernel-3.3.2-1.fc17
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2012-04-18 19:31:08 UTC

kernel-3.3.2-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2012-04-22 04:16:35 UTC

kernel-3.3.2-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.