Bug 682122

Summary:	net-wireless/wpa_supplicant - add use flag to disable FILS
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	gentoo-user
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) <zerochaos>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description gentoo-user 2019-03-31 10:30:02 UTC

After upgrading wpa_supplicant to 2.7-r3, I could no longer scan or connect to any wifi network. wpa_cli kept printing the following message:

<3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-FAILED ret=-22 retry=1

After checking what changed sinc 2.7-r1 I went and commented out the following two lines in the ebuild:

Kconfig_style_config FILS
Kconfig_style_config FILS_SK_PFS

After making this change and restarting wpa_supplicant it connected back to the wifi. Could we get a use flag to disable FILS for such cases where it breaks wifi connectivity?

My computer has a Broadcom BCM4352 card running with the net-wireless/broadcom-sta kernel driver package.

Comment 1 Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) gentoo-dev

2019-04-24 02:40:02 UTC

honestly, I think it's really odd that this causes a failure for you.  that said, flag added (default on).  if it doesn't help please reopen this bug so I can drop the flag.  it *shouldn't* break things, but lacking any desire to find broadcom hardware to test, I'm just going to add the flag.