Bug 183842 – >=net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.5.8 breaks wireless network

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Christian Heim (RETIRED) 2007-07-01 15:07:34 UTC]

When upgrading wpa_supplicant to 0.5.8, the wireless in this notebook won't associate any longer.

First I suspected the ipw2200 driver to be the one responsible for the breakage, but after downgrading to wpa_supplicant-0.5.7 everything works perfectly fine again.

[Comment 1 Christian Heim (RETIRED) 2007-07-01 15:08:00 UTC]

$ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.3_rc6 (hardened/x86/2.6, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.21-hardened-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.21-hardened-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System release 2.0.0_alpha3
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 08:20:01 +0000
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.21
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -g -ggdb2"
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/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -g -ggdb2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="collision-protect cvs distclean distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms sign splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.barfoo.org http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
INSTALL_MASK="/usr/share/gtk-doc /usr/kde/*/share/doc /usr/share/doc /usr/lib/debug"
LANG="C"
LC_ALL="C"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,now -Wl,--sort-common"
MAKEOPTS="-j8"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/files/gentoo.org/overlays/phreak/bugfixes /files/gentoo.org/overlays/phreak/hardened /files/gentoo.org/overlays/phreak/private /files/gentoo.org/overlays/phreak/mobile"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.barfoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="berkdb crypt hardened midi ncurses no-old-linux nptl nptlonly offensive pam perl pic python readline ssl urandom x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 2 Christian Heim (RETIRED) 2007-07-01 15:09:52 UTC]

Created attachment 123533 [details]
dmesg-2.6.20

dmesg of a normal (as in working) startup

[Comment 3 Christian Heim (RETIRED) 2007-07-01 15:10:33 UTC]

Created attachment 123535 [details]
dmesg-2.6.20-noworkie

dmesg of a broken (as in not working) startup

[Comment 4 Christian Heim (RETIRED) 2007-07-01 15:12:09 UTC]

The lines showing the "breakage" are:

Jul  1 16:58:08 celsius ipw2200: Failed to send ASSOCIATE: Already sending a command.
Jul  1 16:58:18 celsius ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
Jul  1 16:58:18 celsius ipw2200: Failed to send ASSOCIATE: Already sending a command.

[Comment 5 Christian Heim (RETIRED) 2007-07-01 19:13:09 UTC]

Reported upstream on Roy's request.

[Comment 6 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2007-07-01 23:34:52 UTC]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/+bug/103497

Does running `rmmod ipw2200` fix it for you?

[Comment 7 Pacho Ramos 2012-11-18 12:42:43 UTC]

Still valid with 1.0-r2?