iwn(4) association issues in 11-Stable (and maybe RC)

Adrian Chadd adrian.chadd at gmail.com
Sun Aug 21 02:07:17 UTC 2016


On 20 August 2016 at 19:02, Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 20, 2016 6:29 PM, "Adrian Chadd" <adrian.chadd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> There have been some changes to the scan code and iwn scan timeout code.
>> Andriy may have some ideas.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> A
>
> One more note. There are multiple "link up" messages in the log. The LED
> never stopped the flashing which indicates that it is not associated. If I
> did "ifconfig wlan0 list aps", my hot spot was listed, but a simple
> "ifconfig wlan0" never showed an association. Usually a few "netif restart"s
> will get it to work, but sometimes it seems hopeless. It seems worse when my
> phone is the hot spot than with my home router.

I've not seen this happen with any of the iwn hardware that I have,
but wifi is odd like that.

it looks like wpa_supplicant is started twice. Is that happening? That
(sigh) still may be making things unhappy.



-adrian


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