Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 07:17:16 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> To: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> Cc: Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd@daemonic.se>, 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: <201807191417.w6JEHGZW034285@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> of "Thu, 19 Jul 2018 08:25:49 -0500." <CACNAnaEaMtRfHTXyCcGGmVP_37=gjLfDjPD5yd1gZqmpC0Z0Rg@mail.gmail.com>
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In message <CACNAnaEaMtRfHTXyCcGGmVP_37=gjLfDjPD5yd1gZqmpC0Z0Rg@mail.gma il.com> , Kyle Evans writes: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 7:13 AM, Niclas Zeising > <zeising+freebsd@daemonic.se> wrote: > > [ 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) > > I plan on trying out the latest from upstream beyond the patch Cy sent > along earlier to see if it's perhaps been addressed elsewhere in the > past two years since this release was made. I'll see if I can create a wpa_supplicant-devel port at noon today. Should be simple enough if I use the sysutils/mmc-utils approach. -- 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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