Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 06:20:02 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> To: Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd@daemonic.se> Cc: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Cy Schubert <cy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r336203 - in head: contrib/wpa contrib/wpa/hostapd contrib/wpa/hs20/client contrib/wpa/patches contrib/wpa/src/ap contrib/wpa/src/common contrib/wpa/src/crypto contrib/wpa/src/drivers c... Message-ID: <201807191320.w6JDK2hD033732@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Niclas Zeising <zeising%2Bfreebsd@daemonic.se> of "Thu, 19 Jul 2018 14:13:35 %2B0200." <2f0ab2c2-b7cc-3dae-2d65-ea3c4a9515cb@daemonic.se>
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In message <2f0ab2c2-b7cc-3dae-2d65-ea3c4a9515cb@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@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? -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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