Bug#651199: iwlwifi: Connection lost on "WPA: Group rekeying"

[Gabriel Kerneis <kerneis@pps.jussieu.fr>]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 03:01:25PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 10:32 +0100, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> > I think I was a bit fast to cheer.
> > 
> > There is still problems but seem to be not as frequent.
> > 
> > Sometimes the link gets unusable after:
> > Dec 28 10:23:15 neith NetworkManager[1503]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant
> > connection state:  completed -> group handshake
> > Dec 28 10:23:15 neith wpa_supplicant[1681]: WPA: Group rekeying
> > completed with 00:30:bd:9d:ad:6b [GTK=TKIP]
> > Dec 28 10:23:15 neith NetworkManager[1503]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant
> > connection state:  group handshake -> completed
> 
> I don't often use WPA, but that looks to me like successful rekeying.

This is the whole issue: rekeying is successful according to the logs but the
connection becomes "frozen"(unable to ping the AP, although the association is
reported to be correct).

I can confirm that 3.1.6 does not fix the issue for me.

Best,
-- 
Gabriel