Re: wpa_supplicant doesn't work with lagg

I had the same problem a while ago.
For some reason you need to use this construction to set the MAC now.

create_args_wlan0="wlanaddr 00:26:b9:12:34:56 country NL"

I don't know why this changed.

Regards,
Ronald.


On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 21:41:46 +0200, Randy Westlund <rwestlun_at_gmail.com>  
wrote:

> I'm having trouble using the lagg driver with wpa_supplicant.  When I
> boot with this standard configuration, my wifi works fine:
>
>> # Normal config.
>> wlans_iwn0="wlan0"
>> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
>> ifconfig_em0="DHCP"
>
> But when I boot with a lagg configuration, wpa_supplicant can't connect.
>
>> # Lagg config.
>> ifconfig_em0="up"
>> ifconfig_iwn0="ether 3c:97:0e:46:70:ca"
>> wlans_iwn0="wlan0"
>> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA"
>> cloned_interfaces="lagg0"
>> ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto failover laggport em0 laggport wlan0 DHCP"
>
> The system spends a full 5 minutes during boot trying to send DHCP
> requests before finally giving up.  After boot, ifconfig shows that
> wlan0 has the right ssid, but the status is 'no carrier':
>
>> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu  
>> 1500
>>         ether 3c:97:0e:46:70:ca
>>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>>         status: no carrier
>>         ssid neural_network channel 1 (2412 MHz 11g ht/40+)
>>         regdomain FCC country US authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy ON
>>         deftxkey UNDEF txpower 30 bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS
>>         ampdulimit 8k -amsdutx amsdurx shortgi -stbc wme roaming MANUAL
>>         groups: wlan
>
> If I then manually kill wpa_supplicant and restart it with the same
> command, it works fine.
>
>> /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -s -B -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D  
>> bsd -P /var/run/wpa_supplicant/wlan0.pid
>
>> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu  
>> 1500
>>         ether 3c:97:0e:46:70:ca
>>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet MCS mode 11ng
>>         status: associated
>>         ssid neural_network channel 1 (2412 MHz 11g ht/40+) bssid  
>> c4:04:15:90:f5:fd
>>         regdomain FCC country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON
>>         deftxkey UNDEF AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 30 bmiss 10 scanvalid  
>> 60
>>         protmode CTS ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 8 -amsdutx amsdurx  
>> shortgi
>>         -stbc wme roaming MANUAL
>>         groups: wlan
>
> /var/log/messages shows:
>
>> Jul 28 15:22:09 mako kernel: wlan0: link state changed to DOWN
>> Jul 28 15:22:09 mako kernel: lagg0: link state changed to DOWN
>> Jul 28 15:22:09 mako kernel: wlan0: link state changed to UP
>> Jul 28 15:22:09 mako kernel: lagg0: link state changed to UP
>> Jul 28 15:22:09 mako kernel: wlan0: link state changed to DOWN
>> Jul 28 15:22:09 mako kernel: lagg0: link state changed to DOWN
>> Jul 28 15:22:09 mako kernel: wlan0: link state changed to UP
>> Jul 28 15:22:09 mako kernel: lagg0: link state changed to UP
>> Jul 28 15:22:09 mako kernel: wlan0: link state changed to DOWN
>> Jul 28 15:22:09 mako kernel: lagg0: link state changed to DOWN
>> Jul 28 15:22:09 mako kernel: wlan0: link state changed to UP
>> Jul 28 15:22:09 mako kernel: lagg0: link state changed to UP
>> Jul 28 15:22:09 mako kernel: wlan0: link state changed to DOWN
>> Jul 28 15:22:09 mako kernel: lagg0: link state changed to DOWN
>> [snip]
>> Jul 28 15:22:23 mako wpa_supplicant[329]: wlan0:  
>> CTRL-EVENT-SSID-REENABLED id=2 ssid="neural_network"
>> Jul 28 15:22:23 mako wpa_supplicant[329]: wlan0: Trying to associate  
>> with c4:04:15:90:f5:fd (SSID='neural_network' freq=2412 MHz)
>> Jul 28 15:22:23 mako kernel: wlan0: link state changed to UP
>> Jul 28 15:22:23 mako kernel: lagg0: link state changed to UP
>> Jul 28 15:22:23 mako wpa_supplicant[329]: wlan0: Associated with  
>> c4:04:15:90:f5:fd
>> Jul 28 15:22:23 mako dhclient[533]: send_packet: No buffer space  
>> available
>> Jul 28 15:22:27 mako dhclient[533]: send_packet: No buffer space  
>> available
>> Jul 28 15:22:27 mako kernel: wlan0: link state changed to DOWN
>> Jul 28 15:22:27 mako kernel: lagg0: link state changed to DOWN
>> Jul 28 15:22:27 mako wpa_supplicant[329]: wlan0:  
>> CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=c4:04:15:90:f5:fd reason=0
>> Jul 28 15:22:27 mako wpa_supplicant[329]: wlan0:  
>> CTRL-EVENT-SSID-TEMP-DISABLED id=2 ssid="neural_network"  
>> auth_failures=7 duration=90 reason=CONN_FAILED
>> Jul 28 15:22:28 mako login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0
>> Jul 28 15:22:31 mako dhclient[533]: send_packet: Network is down
>> Jul 28 15:23:06 mako last message repeated 4 times
>
> This is my hardware:
>
>> iwn0_at_pci0:3:0:0:        class=0x028000 card=0x13118086 chip=0x00858086  
>> rev=0x34 hdr=0x00
>>     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>>     device     = 'Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak]'
>>     class      = network
>
>
> I know I had this working at one point on 10.2-RELEASE, but recently
> I've tried both 11.0-BETA2 and 12-CURRENT and get this behavior.  Any
> advice for debugging?