Re: WPA Supplicant authentication

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 05:09:51PM -0500, chaitanya cherukuri wrote:
> I'm using WPA-supplicant version 2.9 with connman 1.37. Occasionally,
> I get authentication timed out error when connecting to the network.
> This is the error that I see.
> wlan0: send auth to c8:d3:a3:59:68:ca (try 1/3)
> wlan0: send auth to c8:d3:a3:59:68:ca (try 2/3)
> wlan0: send auth to c8:d3:a3:59:68:ca (try 3/3)
> wlan0: authentication with c8:d3:a3:59:68:ca timed out
> 
> Could someone provide me details on why is this error occurring and
> also how to resolve this?

That's a message from mac80211 and wpa_supplicant is not directly
involved in the transmission (and retransmission) of the Authentication
frame. In other words, this requires debugging mac80211 (and/or the
driver) to figure out why the Authentication frame cannot be transmitted
or cannot get an acknowledgment from the AP.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA