Re: 6-BETA1 iwi + wpa_supplicant fails, and sometimes silently re boots

From: Sam Leffler (sam_at_errno.com)
Date: 07/27/05

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    Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:26:48 -0700
To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>

    Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
    > I won't be able to try WPA until I get home this evening (if then).
    >
    > I'm still having failures and ultimately silent reboots trying to get at
    > the unsecured network on campus, however. wpa_supplicant.conf and a
    > debug log attached. ---Is there some secret incantation needed to
    > disable all authentication, or is that case simply not implemented/not
    > tested? The log shows it timing out and failing to authenticate to a
    > null BSSID, instead of simply not authenticating at all.
    >
    >
    >
    > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    >
    > ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
    > ctrl_interface_group=wheel
    > eapol_version=1
    > ap_scan=1
    > fast_reauth=1
    >
    > network={
    > ssid="800-7"
    > scan_ssid=1
    > key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
    > psk="[redacted]"
    > #group=TKIP
    > }
    >
    > network={
    > ssid="CMU"
    > key_mgmt=NONE
    > }

    It was just pointed out that using wpa_supplicant with open
    authentication does not work. I'll look at it soon unless someone beats
    me to it.

            Sam
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