Return-path: Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.19]:62833 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751491Ab3J1Ibk (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Oct 2013 04:31:40 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([93.218.124.130]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx001) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LaooK-1Vz1QA3Kh6-00kR5i for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:31:39 +0100 Message-ID: <526E20EA.9090203@rempel-privat.de> (sfid-20131028_093144_115697_9D464C3A) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:31:38 +0100 From: Oleksij Rempel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Felipe Contreras , linux-wireless Mailing List , ilw@linux.intel.com, hostap@lists.shmoo.com Subject: Re: I always need a miracle to connect with iwlwifi References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Am 28.10.2013 07:24, schrieb Felipe Contreras: > Hi, > > I already reported this problem [1] and I got no feedback whatsoever > at all. The issue keeps happening and I've tried many things. > > First of all, when Linux is failing, my phone connects fine, other > computers connect fine, and this machine with Windows 7 as well. I've > tried reloading the driver, rebooting, different module parameters, > nothing works. > > I logged a session [2] where I waited 30 minutes for the link to come > up, but it never did. You can see the same thing happening over and > over: > > 1382936199.582861: nl80211: Association request send successfully > 1382936199.797063: nl80211: Event message available > 1382936199.797097: nl80211: Delete station e0:1d:3b:46:82:a0 > 1382936199.797881: nl80211: Event message available > 1382936199.797905: nl80211: MLME event 38; timeout with e0:1d:3b:46:82:a0 > 1382936199.797915: wlan0: Event ASSOC_TIMED_OUT (15) received > 1382936199.797920: wlan0: SME: Association timed out > 1382936199.797924: Added BSSID e0:1d:3b:46:82:a0 into blacklist > > If I reboot the router, it works immediately, another thing that works > is connecting with ad-hoc mode (mode=1), and then back to normal mode > (mode=0). > > Here's a log [3] where I tried reloading the module multiple times and > finally tried ad-hoc mode, after which the link came up. > > Clearly the Linux kernel has a bug. Can somebody point out what needs > to be done to get this fixed? > > Cheers. > > [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/108004 > [2] http://people.freedesktop.org/~felipec/wpa/wpa-bad-30-min-wait.log > [3] http://people.freedesktop.org/~felipec/wpa/wpa-good-nothing-worked-except-mode-switch.log > Heh... this logs look like miracle :) My first assumption would be buggy router. There is no answer in wpa_supplicant log. Take wireshark and capture working and not working associational request. -- Regards, Oleksij