ath(4), wpa_supplicant, WPA2, Netgear WG302 problem

[Bruce A. Mah]

I'm having a problem getting a Netgear WG511T in my FreeBSD CURRENT
laptop to do WPA2-PSK with a Netgear WG302 access point.  I'm hoping
someone here can give me a nudge in the right direction to help
troubleshoot this.

The laptop is an old Sony Vaio (PCG-Z505HS).  The Netgear WG511T
probes thusly:

ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0x88000000-0x8800ffff irq 9 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:0f:b5:af:81:39
ath0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6

The OS is FreeBSD HEAD as of yesterday, GENERIC kernel.  Note that
this has the recent HAL import, as well as wpa_supplicant v0.5.8:

ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)

The AP is a Netgear WG302 with Firmware 4.2.17.  It's configured for
WPA2-PSK.  Several other clients can communicate with this AP without
any problems.  A slightly sanitized wpa_supplicant.conf is:

-----
network={
	ssid="kitchenlab.org"
	scan_ssid=1
	psk="REAL_PSK_REMOVED"
}
-----

Some output from wpa_supplicant -dd is below:

-----
Starting AP scan (specific SSID)
Scan SSID - hexdump_ascii(len=14):
     6b 69 74 63 68 65 6e 6c 61 62 2e 6f 72 67         kitchenlab.org  
Received 0 bytes of scan results (6 BSSes)
Scan results: 6
Selecting BSS from priority group 0
Try to find WPA-enabled AP
0: 00:14:6c:6f:2e:7d ssid='kitchenlab.org' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=26 caps=0x31
   selected based on RSN IE
   selected WPA AP 00:14:6c:6f:2e:7d ssid='kitchenlab.org'
Try to find non-WPA AP
Trying to associate with 00:14:6c:6f:2e:7d (SSID='kitchenlab.org' freq=2412 MHz)
Cancelling scan request
WPA: clearing own WPA/RSN IE
Automatic auth_alg selection: 0x1
wpa_driver_bsd_set_auth_alg alg 0x1 authmode 1
RSN: using IEEE 802.11i/D9.0
WPA: Selected cipher suites: group 8 pairwise 24 key_mgmt 2 proto 2
WPA: clearing AP WPA IE
WPA: set AP RSN IE - hexdump(len=26): 30 18 01 00 00 0f ac 02 02 00 00 0f ac 02 00 0f ac 04 01 00 00 0f ac 02 01 00
WPA: using GTK TKIP
WPA: using PTK CCMP
WPA: using KEY_MGMT WPA-PSK
WPA: Set own WPA IE default - hexdump(len=22): 30 14 01 00 00 0f ac 02 01 00 00 0f ac 04 01 00 00 0f ac 02 00 00
No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
wpa_driver_bsd_set_drop_unencrypted: enabled=1
State: SCANNING -> ASSOCIATING
wpa_driver_bsd_associate: ssid 'kitchenlab.org' wpa ie len 22 pairwise 3 group 2 key mgmt 1
wpa_driver_bsd_associate: set PRIVACY 1
Setting authentication timeout: 10 sec 0 usec
EAPOL: External notification - EAP success=0
EAPOL: External notification - EAP fail=0
EAPOL: External notification - portControl=Auto
RSN: added PMKSA cache candidate 00:14:6c:6f:2e:7d prio 1000
RSN: processing PMKSA candidate list
RSN: not in suitable state for new pre-authentication
Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
BSSID 00:14:6c:6f:2e:7d blacklist count incremented to 2
No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
State: ASSOCIATING -> DISCONNECTED
EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0
EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0
EAPOL: External notification - EAP success=0
Setting scan request: 0 sec 0 usec
State: DISCONNECTED -> SCANNING
-----

It's interesting that the WG511T can associate with this AP if both
are configured for WEP, and it can do WPA2 with a Linksys WRT54G
(unknown version).  Also I saw superficially similar results while
running 6.2-RELEASE and RELENG_6 on the same hardware.  Debugging by
Google hasn't helped me yet either, so I'm running out of ideas.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Bruce.
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