Bug 43100 - brcmsmac driver: associated with ap but dhclient fails to aquire ip
Summary: brcmsmac driver: associated with ap but dhclient fails to aquire ip
Status: RESOLVED UNREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: Drivers
Classification: Unclassified
Component: network-wireless (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 normal
Assignee: drivers_network-wireless@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
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Reported: 2012-04-13 13:51 UTC by Patrick
Modified: 2012-09-04 15:51 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Regression: Yes
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/var/log/syslog of linux 3.4-rc4 (271.60 KB, text/plain)
2012-04-13 13:51 UTC, Patrick
Details

Description Patrick 2012-04-13 13:51:55 UTC
Created attachment 72907 [details]
/var/log/syslog of linux 3.4-rc4

Hardware: Samsung SF510 (shark) laptop

Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)

I'm using the brcmsmac module. I can see various access points in network-manager, including my home network, "Basel". When trying to connect to "Basel", however, it doesn't work. My interpretation of /var/log/syslog tells me that the failure is probably be caused by the brcmsmac driver that for some reason is not sending/receiving any packets to/from the access point.

Any suggestions about how to further track this down this most welcome!

I am currently testing this with linux 3.4-rc2.

I have tested 3.3.2 previously and it had the same problem.

Linux 3.2.14 does not have have the problem. The driver works fine there.
Comment 1 Patrick 2012-04-13 13:59:40 UTC
Other, probably related bug reports:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1272203

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42686
  (sorry, found that only now, could be an exact duplicate)

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1074977#p1074977
Comment 2 Arend van Spriel 2012-04-17 12:23:16 UTC
bug 42686 is about iwlagn device so it would only be a duplicate when it is a mac80211 issue. From the log it shows dhcp is failing. 9 out of 10 times that means packets are not properly encrypted. wireless sniff or some logging info from your AP would help to determine that.
Comment 3 Patrick 2012-04-17 21:51:26 UTC
Hello, thanks for following up on this bug. I'm sorry to say that it 
seems to be non-reproducible at the moment. Let's "suspend" it. The 
last 2 times I bootet into 2.4-rc2, the wireless network got actually 
connectet normally. The first time, there was a strange lang between 
Step 4 and 5 of about a minute... ?? But otherwise everything worked 
fine.

Maybe the device (*cough*) just had to (*cough* ehr...) got used to the 
new driver.  - No - seriously - I don't know what might have been 
the problem here, but let's suspend it. Sorry for the noise.

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