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Bug#664767: Brcmsmac driver woes, possible regression?



On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 18:30 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
> El 2013-03-19 a las 11:53 -0500, Dan Williams escribió:
> 
> > On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 17:21 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
> > > 2013/3/19 Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>:
> > > > 2013/3/18 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:
> > > >> Camaleón wrote:
> > > >>> El 2013-03-18 a las 20:38 +0100, Arend van Spriel escribió:
> > > >>
> > > >>>> Sorry to hear. Reading back the bug report I noticed you are having a
> > > >>>> bcm4313 and we recently had a regression on it. Could you provide
> > > >>>> debugfs information from <debugfs_mount>/brcmsmac/bcma0:0/hardware
> > > >>>
> > > >>> I see. My "/sys/kernel/debug/*" directory is empty
> > > >>
> > > >> mount -t debugfs debugfs /sys/kernel/debug
> > > >
> > > > Perfect, thanks.
> > > >
> > > > root@stt300:~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/brcmsmac/bcma0\:0/hardware
> > > > board vendor: 103c
> > > > board type: 145c
> > > > board revision: 2209
> > > > board flags: 8002a00
> > > > board flags2: 800
> > > > firmware revision: 262032b
> > > >
> > > > Now let's see how reverting the patch makes any difference as soon as
> > > > I can compile the module. I will keep you updated
> > > 
> > > Update: applied the patch to revert the "other" patch but I still
> > > cannot get the driver to work (see attached syslog). N-M still asks
> > > for password until desists :-(
> > 
> > Note that NM 0.9.8 won't ask for a password when just anything fails,
> > but will ask for a password if the 4-way handshake fails, because if
> > that fails, it's probably your password.  We're contemplating getting
> > rid of that too, and just notifying the user that their password may be
> > wrong and that they should go update it in the network configuration
> > panel so we don't interrupt.  But if you're 100% sure your PSK is
> > correct, then it is, most likely, a driver bug.
> 
> Password is correct. I have a second wireless card (external, using 
> rt2800usb driver) that connects without a glitch to the same AP.
> 
> Moreover, unless I type the right password, N-M dialog does not allow 
> me to click on the "Connect" button.

NM minimally verifies the PSK, which by 802.11 standards is between 8
and 63 ASCII characters inclusive.  So you should be able to type
anything you want within those constraints, but clearly only one is your
real PSK.

Dan


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