Return-path: Received: from mail-la0-f47.google.com ([209.85.215.47]:33112 "EHLO mail-la0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755917Ab3J1JiW (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Oct 2013 05:38:22 -0400 Received: by mail-la0-f47.google.com with SMTP id ep20so5010202lab.34 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 02:38:20 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <526E20EA.9090203@rempel-privat.de> References: <526E20EA.9090203@rempel-privat.de> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 03:38:20 -0600 Message-ID: (sfid-20131028_103835_861329_4C666D68) Subject: Re: I always need a miracle to connect with iwlwifi From: Felipe Contreras To: Oleksij Rempel Cc: linux-wireless Mailing List , ilw@linux.intel.com, "hostap@lists.shmoo.com" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:31 AM, Oleksij Rempel wrote: > 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. Yeah, I bet the router is buggy, which router isn't? But why Windows 7 connects fine? > Take wireshark and capture working and not working associational request. I'll try that. If only it was that easy to get a working association. -- Felipe Contreras