I use wpa_supplicant and the rtl8180 kernel module for my Wireless PCI card to connect to my wireless router. It works fine with kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r9. However, updates to later kernels destroy the functionality. My latest attempt was to upgrade to kernel 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 but after the reboot it fails to connect. It does not help to downgrade to wpa_supplicant-0.5.*, so it seems different from other bugs reported here. iwlist --scanning works but shows wrong signal quality imho. wpa_supplicant gives as an error message 4-Way Handshake failed - pre-shared key may be incorrect but I think the key is correct as it works with an earlier version of the kernel module. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. reboot with new kernel 2. start wpa_supplicant 3. watch endless connection and reconnection taking place Actual Results: no wpa connection Expected Results: wpa connection to wireless router -----------------snip--------------------------- Apr 14 01:49:24 linux1 wlan0: associate with AP 00:01:02:03:04:05 Apr 14 01:49:24 linux1 wlan0: deauthenticated Apr 14 01:49:25 linux1 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:01:02:03:04:05 Apr 14 01:49:25 linux1 wlan0: authenticated Apr 14 01:49:25 linux1 wlan0: associate with AP 00:01:02:03:04:05 Apr 14 01:49:25 linux1 wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:01:02:03:04:05 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=1) Apr 14 01:49:25 linux1 wlan0: associated Apr 14 01:49:28 linux1 wlan0: disassociated Apr 14 01:49:29 linux1 wlan0: associate with AP 00:01:02:03:04:05 Apr 14 01:49:29 linux1 wlan0: deauthenticated Apr 14 01:49:30 linux1 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:01:02:03:04:05 --------------------snip ------------------------------ and this repeats lspci | grep Belkin gives 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Belkin Device 700f (rev 20) from /var/log/messages: driver registers Apr 14 02:00:20 linux1 rtl8180 0000:00:0e.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 Apr 14 02:00:20 linux1 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid' Apr 14 02:00:20 linux1 phy0: hwaddr 00:01:02:03:04:05, RTL8185vD + rtl8225z2
Please post your `emerge --info' too.
...and then reopen this bug report.
emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.25-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r9-i686-AMD_Athlon-TM-_XP_2400+-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r14, 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo " LANG="de_DE.utf8@euro" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en de" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 acl acpi alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups cusp dbus dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam fame firefox fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog java joystick jpeg kde kpathsea ldap libnotify lm_sensors lzo mad midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis win32codecs x86 xine xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="via82xx" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
The problem does not appear any more with kernel linux1 2.6.29-gentoo-r5. After an update I can connect to my access point. I guess it was a driver issue.
