WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour

[Chris Van Steenlandt]

Adrian,

- ifconfig step (creation of pseudo device) completed successfully
- wpa_supplicant gives the following type of output (I can't paste it 
here, but I'll describe the structure of the output) :

1st message : Initialization successfull

Then the following blocks of messages (they alternate or repeat)
Block 1 :

Trying to associate with <mac address> (SSID='myssid' freq=5180 Mhz)
wlan0 : Authentication with <mac address> timed out.
wlan0 : CTRL_EVENT_DISCONNECTED bssid =<mac address> reason=3 
locally_generated=1
ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=20, val=0, arg_len=7] : Can't assign requested adress

Block 2 :
Trying to associate with <mac address> (SSID='myssid' freq=2412 Mhz)
wlan0 : Associated with <mac address>
wlan0 : WPA: Key negotiation completed with <mac address>  [PTK=CMP 
GTK=TKIP]
wlan0 : CTRL_EVENT_CONNECTED - Connection to <mac address> completed 
[id=0 id_str=]


Block 2 is sometines followed by :
wlan0 : CTRL_EVENT_DISCONNECTED bssid =<mac address> reason=0
and then followed by block 1

For as far as I understand, the driver switches between the 2.4 GHz and 
5 Ghz band of my wireless network. Indeed my wifi router is configured 
to support both bands but apparently my wifi driver can only handle the 
2.4Ghz one.


On 23-08-14 22:19, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Ok.
>
> Just try it manually -
>
> * comment out stuff from /etc/rc.conf and reboot
> * ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev wpi0 -bgscan
> * wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf &
> * ifconfig wlan0 list scan - you haven't pasted that here, so we have
> no idea what APs it is seeing
>
> then see.
>
> If you compiled in IEEE80211_DEBUG in your kernel config, then
> 'wlandebug +scan' and see what is spat out to the kernel config.