Re: wifi: iwlwifi: SAE fails when AP sends confirm before STA

Johannes Berg <[email protected]> Fri, 09 May 2025 20:39:57 +0200
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.iwd,org.kernel.vger.linux-wireless
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On Fri, 2025-05-09 at 17:37 +0200, Jan Hendrik Farr wrote:
> > Yep that's it. At least we can take that out of the equation.
> > 
> > And yes, in the PCAP I do see the confirm's being sent but no ACK. We'll
> > have to wait for an iwlwifi person to chime in. I suspect we'll need some
> > iwlwifi debugging enabled to see if the confirm was received at some level
> > in the driver and dropped, or never received at all.
> 
> I have captured and attached a trace collected using:
> 
> trace-cmd record -e iwlwifi -e mac80211 -e cfg80211 -e iwlwifi_msg
> 
> At the start of the trace iwd is shutdown. I start it and force it to
> connect to a 6ghz network. There should be at least two failed
> connections.

I think it tries to connect to a 5 GHz network first.

Could you do trace and sniffer at the same time? According to the trace
there was no authentication frame from the AP. In the sniffer capture it
_is_ there, of course, but I'd like to look at the timing.

johannes