Bug 904247

Summary:	Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Zdeněk Pavlas <zpavlas>
Component:	wpa_supplicant	Assignee:	Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	17	CC:	alekcejk, dcbw, jzeleny
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Description Zdeněk Pavlas 2013-01-25 20:48:40 UTC

Description of problem:

Cannot associate.

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

wpa_supplicant-1.0-1.fc17.i686
NetworkManager-0.9.6.4-3.fc17.i686
kernel-3.7.3-101.fc17.i686

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use Orinoco gold wifi card, try connecting to any AP.

Actual results:

After some timeout, a password prompt re-appears.

Expected results:

Associated.

Additional info:

There are messages "set interface ap_scan to 1" and "Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming" in syslog.  According to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/orinoco setting ap_scan=2 should work this around- but there's no such option in GUI, wpa_supplicant.conf, or network-scripts/ifcfg-* scripts.

/var/log/wpa_supplicant.log

eth0: Trying to associate with 00:21:27:ee:2e:0c (SSID='Fernet' freq=2412 MHz)
eth0: Association request to the driver failed
eth0: Authentication with 00:21:27:ee:2e:0c timed out.

/var/log/syslog:

Jan 25 14:45:40 prdel NetworkManager[452]: <info> Config: added 'ssid' value 'Fernet'
Jan 25 14:45:40 prdel NetworkManager[452]: <info> Config: added 'scan_ssid' value '1'
Jan 25 14:45:40 prdel NetworkManager[452]: <info> Config: added 'key_mgmt' value 'NONE'
Jan 25 14:45:40 prdel NetworkManager[452]: <info> Config: added 'auth_alg' value 'OPEN'
Jan 25 14:45:40 prdel NetworkManager[452]: <info> Config: added 'wep_key0' value '<omitted>'
Jan 25 14:45:40 prdel NetworkManager[452]: <info> Config: added 'wep_tx_keyidx' value '0'
Jan 25 14:45:40 prdel NetworkManager[452]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
Jan 25 14:45:40 prdel NetworkManager[452]: <info> Config: set interface ap_scan to 1
Jan 25 14:45:40 prdel NetworkManager[452]: <info> (eth0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> scanning
Jan 25 14:45:41 prdel wpa_supplicant[1642]: ioctl[SIOCSIWFREQ]: Device or resource busy
Jan 25 14:45:41 prdel wpa_supplicant[1642]: ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not supported
Jan 25 14:45:41 prdel kernel: [  820.846444] eth0: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming
Jan 25 14:45:41 prdel NetworkManager[452]: <info> (eth0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> associating
Jan 25 14:45:51 prdel NetworkManager[452]: <info> (eth0): supplicant interface state: associating -> disconnected

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