Re: nm 0.6.6-1 (Debian lenny) Frequent dropped connection

[Alexander Sack <asac jwsdot com>]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:24:29PM -0700, victorh wrote:
> CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:15:c7:81:a5:e0 completed (reauth)
> [id=0 id_str=]
> NetworkManager: <info>  Supplicant state changed: 1
> CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
> Trying to associate with 00:15:c7:81:78:b0 (SSID='ANY' freq=2462 MHz)
> CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
> NetworkManager: <info>  Supplicant state changed: 0
> NetworkManager: <debug> [1210963560.475100]
> nm_device_802_11_wireless_update_bssid(): Roamed from BSSID
> 00:15:C7:81:A5:E0 to 00:15:C7:81:78:B0 on wireless network 'ANY'
> NetworkManager: <info>  eth2: link timed out.
> NetworkManager: <info>  SWITCH: found better connection 'eth2/ANY' than
> current connection 'eth2/ANY'.  same_ssid=1, have_link=0
> NetworkManager: <info>  Will activate connection 'eth2/ANY'.
> NetworkManager: <info>  Device eth2 activation scheduled...
> NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device eth2.
> CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING - signal 15 received
> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) started...
> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
> scheduled...
> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
> started...
> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure)
> scheduled...
> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
> complete.
> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure)
> starting...
> NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2/wireless): access point 'ANY' is
> unencrypted, no key needed.
> NetworkManager: <info>  DHCP daemon state is now 14 (normal exit) for
> interface eth2
> NetworkManager: <info>  DHCP daemon state is now 11 (unknown) for interface
> eth2
> NetworkManager: <info>  DHCP daemon state is now 14 (normal exit) for
> interface eth2
> NetworkManager: <info>  Error opening supplicant global control interface.
> NetworkManager: <WARN>  real_act_stage2_config(): Activation
> (eth2/wireless): couldn't connect to the supplicant.

This looks like an issue we had in ubuntu that made wpasupplicant
hanging and properly releasing the control interface. Try the patch
debian/patches/42c_terminate_supplicant_cleanly.patch in the ubuntu
package.

 - Alexander