Bug 442046 - Periodic Disconnects from WPA2 Router/WAP
Summary: Periodic Disconnects from WPA2 Router/WAP
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: NetworkManager
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dan Williams
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-04-11 13:44 UTC by Marc Schwartz
Modified: 2009-01-09 06:22 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-01-09 06:22:20 UTC
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Description Marc Schwartz 2008-04-11 13:44:23 UTC
Description of problem:

After noting #213088 regarding WPA related problems for wireless connections, I
installed the below listed components. This enabled me to connect to a LinkSys
WPA2 router/WAP. However, I am now noting periodic disconnects and fall back to
the wired connection.


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

From F8 updates-testing:

NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3370.fc8
NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.0-8.svn3302.fc8
NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3370.fc8
NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3370.fc8
NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0-0.6.3.svn3109.fc8

wpa_supplicant-0.5.10-4.fc8



How reproducible:

Always



Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect to a WPA2 protected router/WAP


  
Actual results:

Connection is achieved, but after a time is lost and falls back to the wired
interface. The following is noted in dmesg:

wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:18:39:df:fc:29
wlan0: RX authentication from 00:18:39:df:fc:29 (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0)
wlan0: authenticated
wlan0: associate with AP 00:18:39:df:fc:29
wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:18:39:df:fc:29 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=2)
wlan0: associated
wlan0: switched to long barker preamble (BSSID=00:18:39:df:fc:29)
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
wlan0: disassociate(reason=3)
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
wlan0: RX deauthentication from 00:18:39:df:fc:29 (reason=16)
wlan0: deauthenticated




Expected results:

Stable wireless connection



Other Info:

My wifi card is in a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop with a P4 CPU:

02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11a/b/g (rev 02)

and I use the b43legacy driver via b43-fwcutter.

My kernel is the latest for F8 stable: 2.6.24.4-64.fc8

Comment 1 ajs 2008-08-01 17:14:46 UTC
I also see this in F9.

When the AP is put in WPA compatibility mode, the connection is stable.

kernel-2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64
wpa_supplicant-0.6.3-6.fc9.x86_64
NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.0-14.svn3632.fc9.x86_64
NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0-0.9.4.svn3675.fc9.x86_64
NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.9.4.svn3675.fc9.x86_64
NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0-0.7.7.svn3627.fc9.x86_64
NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.0-0.9.4.svn3675.fc9.x86_64

Hardware:
HP Pavilion dv6000t
Intel 3945 ABG


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