Re:Re: change wpa-psk authentication timeout

["tommy.hong" <hongjiujing 126 com>]

hi,howard!i have reconfirm,it is wpa_supplicant 0.6.7 !
do "iwlist ra0 scanning" also need a lot of time?

tommy

在2009-11-10 16:46:43，"Howard Chu" <hyc symas com> 写道：
>tommy.hong wrote:
>> 
>> hi,howard!
>> i met similar problem a few days ago,the same chip ,rt3070!
>> 
>> My networkmanager is 0.7.1,original wpa_supplicant is 0.5.8,when i
>> update wpa_supplicant to 0.6.3 ,it is OK!
>
>Thanks for that info. Strange though, my wpa_supplicant is 0.6.7. I wonder
>what differences there are between that and 0.6.3, will have to look at the
>diff later.
>> 
>> 
>> 在2009-11-10 16:25:25，"Howard Chu" <hyc symas com> 写道：
>>>> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:15:04 -0800
>>>> From: Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 18:59 +0100, Fabio Airoldi wrote:
>>>>> > I have an authentication timeout when connecting to my wireless network.
>>>>> > However if I move closer to the AP I can connect without problems, and
>>>>> > even if I go back to my desk the connection doesn't drop.
>>>>> > 
>>>>> > I am using networkmanager v 0.7.1 on fedora 11 (kernel 2.6.30.9). I
>>>>> > tried setting iwlagn parameters (disable_hw_scan, sw_crypto ... almost
>>>>> > every combination possible) but nothing changed.
>>>>> > 
>>>>> > Is it possible to increase the authentication timeout? Maybe this is a
>>>>> > dumb question but I wasn't able to find any documentation about
>>>>> > timeouts.
>>>
>>>> The full WPA connection timeout for NM is about 30 seconds.  That's
>>>> usually plenty of time for the supplicant to scan, find the AP, initiate
>>>> the 4-way handshake, and finish it, *especially* for WPA.  I'm very
>>>> curious about why your setup is taking longer.  You can put the option
>>>> "-dddt" into
>>>> your /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.service file at teh end of the "Exec=" line, then 'killall -TERM wpa_supplicant', then attempt to reproduce the issue, and mail me /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log so we can see what's going on.
>>>
>>>I'll note that wpa_supplicant itself uses a timeout of 70 seconds for WPA
>>>authentication. You can see this if you monitor the supplicant using wpa_cli
>>>while the supplicant authenticates.
>>>
>>>As another data point, on my AI TouchBook with RAlink RT3070, it frequently
>>>takes much longer than 30 seconds to authenticate to my WPA-EAP network. I
>>>don't know that there's any specific reason other than that there's a lot of
>>>other networks in the neighborhood and a lot of interference.
>>>
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