#8799 HIGH 8.2.1: WPA association issue when attempted from GUI: XO do not respond to first EAPOL frame

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#8799: WPA association issue when attempted from GUI: XO do not respond to first
EAPOL frame
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           Reporter:  carrano      |       Owner:  jcardona     
               Type:  defect       |      Status:  new          
           Priority:  high         |   Milestone:  8.2.1        
          Component:  wireless     |     Version:  not specified
         Resolution:               |    Keywords:               
        Next_action:  communicate  |    Verified:  0            
Deployment_affected:               |   Blockedby:               
           Blocking:               |  
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Changes (by mbletsas):

 * cc: deepak (added)


Comment:

 Deepak,

 Can we get a test kernel with Javier's collection of patches?

 Thanks,

 M.

 >
 > While working on this ticket, we uncovered a number of other issues:
 >
 >  1. redundant WPA key removals
 >  2. under some conditions the association work queue would be executed
 with nothing to do
 >  3. WPA key installation coupled with delayed association work queue
 >  4. wpa_supplicant clearing the BSSID would result in association
 requests to 'any' AP, adding unnecessary delays to WPA associations.
 >
 > The patches posted here address these issues:
 http://dev.laptop.org/~javier/patches/8799-patches
 >
 > With this patches things improve a lot:  we are now always able to
 associate via the GUI, but sometimes it requires a few retries (more about
 this in a separate post).
 >
 >

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8799#comment:19>
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