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From: Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant connect-disconnect loop
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:27:56
Message-Id: 4D03DE8E.3020404@gmail.com
1 Hello,
2
3 The output of
4
5 wpa_supplicant -Dwext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
6 -iwlan0 -d dhcpcd
7
8 on my laptop shows continuous output to screen which appears to be
9 looping on association and disassociation to my wireless router (I am
10 not posting this long list here). The corresponding effect is this
11
12 -> ping yahoo.com
13 PING yahoo.com (72.30.2.43) 56(84) bytes of data.
14 64 bytes from ir1.fp.vip.sk1.yahoo.com (72.30.2.43): icmp_req=1 ttl=47
15 time=88.2 ms
16 64 bytes from ir1.fp.vip.sk1.yahoo.com (72.30.2.43): icmp_req=2 ttl=47
17 time=88.6 ms
18 64 bytes from ir1.fp.vip.sk1.yahoo.com (72.30.2.43): icmp_req=3 ttl=47
19 time=91.1 ms
20 ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
21 ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
22 ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
23 ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
24 [snip]
25 ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
26 ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
27 ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
28 64 bytes from ir1.fp.vip.sk1.yahoo.com (72.30.2.43): icmp_req=21 ttl=47
29 time=94.8 ms
30 64 bytes from ir1.fp.vip.sk1.yahoo.com (72.30.2.43): icmp_req=22 ttl=47
31 time=90.7 ms
32 64 bytes from ir1.fp.vip.sk1.yahoo.com (72.30.2.43): icmp_req=23 ttl=47
33 time=87.6 ms
34 64 bytes from ir1.fp.vip.sk1.yahoo.com (72.30.2.43): icmp_req=24 ttl=47
35 time=89.5 ms
36 ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
37 ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
38 ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
39 ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
40 ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
41 ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
42 ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
43 ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
44 ^C
45 --- yahoo.com ping statistics ---
46 32 packets transmitted, 7 received, 78% packet loss, time 31009ms
47 rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 87.615/90.125/94.813/2.283 ms
48
49 I have never setup wireless networking and have been reading the web and
50 other information on how to use wpa_supplicant to connect to my home
51 router. I would appreciate help on this. I emerged wpa_supplicant with
52 the following USE flags:
53
54 -> equery uses wpa_supplicant
55 [ Searching for packages matching wpa_supplicant... ]
56 [ Colour Code : set unset ]
57 [ Legend : Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf ]
58 [ : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
59 [ Found these USE variables for net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.7.2-r3 ]
60 U I
61 - - dbus : Enable dbus support for anything that needs it
62 (gpsd, gnomemeeting, etc)
63 - - debug : Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and
64 extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see
65 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml
66 - - eap-sim : Add support for EAP-SIM authentication algorithm
67 - - fasteap : Add support for FAST-EAP authentication algorithm
68 - - gnutls : Adds support for net-libs/gnutls (TLS 1.0 and SSL
69 3.0 support)
70 - - kernel_FreeBSD : KERNEL setting for system using the FreeBSD kernel
71 + + kernel_linux : KERNEL setting for system using the Linux kernel
72 - - madwifi : Add support for madwifi (Atheros chipset)
73 - - ps3 : Add support for ps3 hypervisor driven gelic wifi
74 - - qt4 : Adds support for the Qt GUI/Application Toolkit
75 version 4.x
76 + + readline : Enables support for libreadline, a GNU
77 line-editing library that almost everyone wants
78 + + ssl : Adds support for Secure Socket Layer connections
79 - - wps : Add support for Wi-Fi Protected Setup
80
81 There were a number of steps to get to where I am now and I would be
82 glad to post additional information if required.
83
84 Thanks a lot.
85
86 --
87 Valmor

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