Bug 360997

Summary:	Stabilization request of net-wireless/hostapd-0.7.3
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alexander Goomenyuk <emerg.reanimator>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) <gurligebis>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	mobile+disabled
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	STABLEREQ
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alexander Goomenyuk 2011-03-28 20:14:20 UTC

=== Summary ===
There is issue which is not reproduced with hostapd-0.7.3, but occurs with hostapd-0.6.9;

The release of 0.7.3 was almost 6 months ago. Still not open issue against one on Gentoo bugzilla.

Here are few against 0.6.9:
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573048
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600589

=== Details of issue ===
On one of Gentoo based workstation I have two wired interface (lan0, lan1) and one wireless interface (wlan0, ath9k). All the interfaces are binded together to single bridge (br0).

With the hostapd-0.6.9 and kernel 2.6.3-tuxonice-r3 there is weired behavior of hostapd:
* If hostapd is started before net.br0 init script, then supplicants not able to connect to AP because of EAPOL-Key timeout during handshake step 1/4.

* If hostapd started after net.br0, then AP works expected.
However this sequence not acceptable, because net.br0 needs hostapd to be started before. Otherwise adding wlan0 to br0 failed with "operation not permitted". Thus manual restart of net.br0 required later.

I guess this happens because wlan0 interface not configured. Using of iwconfig before the net.br0 start not possible, because nl82011 used for wlan0 doesn't accept setting the master mode from legacy tools (i.e. iwconfig). iw tool doesn't accept either.

Comment 1 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-03-29 08:17:21 UTC

Sure, let's get it stablilized :-)

Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2011-03-29 15:27:25 UTC

amd64 ok

Comment 3 Christoph Mende (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-03-29 16:09:21 UTC

amd64 done, thanks Agostino

Comment 4 Andreas Schürch gentoo-dev

2011-04-04 19:29:37 UTC

Compile tests were successful on x86, but i don't have a wireless to test with.

Comment 5 Thomas Kahle (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-04-21 13:52:57 UTC

x86 stable. Thanks Andreas

Comment 6 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-05-18 08:59:34 UTC

PPC, would you please take a look at this?

Comment 7 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-07-06 11:33:31 UTC

Does the missing answer from PPC means, that it does not work, or?

Comment 8 Kacper Kowalik (Xarthisius) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-07-13 12:19:36 UTC

ppc stable, last arch closing