ral and wpa_supplicant, anybody running this?

[Torsten Harenberg <harenberg%physik.uni-wuppertal.de@localhost>]

Dear all,

Am 04.02.10 20:48, schrieb Quentin Garnier:
> I've only used it in WEP mode, and not through wpa_supplicant so that
> path is definitely untested from my part.

after spending several hours, trying different wpa_supplicant versions, 
google'ing around, I still wasn't able to find the source of the 
problem, that wpa_supplicant (both in-tree and pkgsrc) is re-key'ing all 
the time - both with WPA and WPA2 and with two different APs while one 
is a comercial network:

CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
Trying to associate with 00:24:fe:03:00:2c (SSID='KWERTH2' freq=2412 MHz)
CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
Associated with 00:24:fe:03:00:2c
WPA: Key negotiation completed with 00:24:fe:03:00:2c [PTK=TKIP GTK=TKIP]
CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:24:fe:03:00:2c completed (auth) 
[id=0 id_str=]
WPA: Group rekeying completed with 00:24:fe:03:00:2c [GTK=TKIP]
WPA: Group rekeying completed with 00:24:fe:03:00:2c [GTK=TKIP]
WPA: Group rekeying completed with 00:24:fe:03:00:2c [GTK=TKIP]
CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
Trying to associate with 00:24:fe:03:00:2c (SSID='KWERTH2' freq=2412 MHz)
Associated with 00:24:fe:03:00:2c
WPA: Key negotiation completed with 00:24:fe:03:00:2c [PTK=TKIP GTK=TKIP]
CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:24:fe:03:00:2c completed 
(reauth) [id=0 id_str=]
WPA: Group rekeying completed with 00:24:fe:03:00:2c [GTK=TKIP]
WPA: Group rekeying completed with 00:24:fe:03:00:2c [GTK=TKIP]
WPA: Group rekeying completed with 00:24:fe:03:00:2c [GTK=TKIP]
CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
^CCTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING - signal 2 received

I upgraded the kernel to -current and ported the driver patches to that 
version, but with the same results.

From kern/42581 I would believe that the problem is in the ral driver 
itself and not in the patches from Quentin, although

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-net/2009/05/14/msg001323.html

reports ral to work. (I reverted the patch as suggested there for ath, 
but this also did not help)

Is there anybody out there with a ral card working with wpa_supplicant 
and would be able to share some debug information?

  Torsten