[vox-tech] wpa_supplicant on debian jessie

[Richard Harke]

This is happening on two different laptops. One is using a usb wifi fob
with realtek chip set. My new laptop
uses intel wifi. I use wicd to select and bring up a connection. The first
try always takes a very long time
and fails with bad password. If I then immediately click connect again, it
connects in 1 or 2 seconds and remains
connected for a variable length of time. At starbucks (open AP) it connects
right away but disconnects
4 to 6 seconds later. I haven't tried all permutations of machine and AP
but a recent debian seems to be the
main common point. Problem started on the old machine after upgrading to
sid. And now the new machine is
installed with jessie. (which was sid when the old machine was upgraded)
Its on my new machine I noticed the log files
growing and saw entries for wpa_supplicant every few seconds (syslog and
daemon.log)
Richard


On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Rōnin Dusette <djyoshabyd at gmail.com> wrote:

> That sounds like a driver problem. What Wi-Fi card and which drivers have
> you tried? If it's Broadcom, have you tried b4x-cutter (I think it's called
> that. Been a while since I had to use it.)? Or possibly ndiswrapper?
> On 4 Jul 2015 14:34, "Richard Harke" <paleopenguin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have been having trouble with wifi for several weeks now. Multiple
>> tries to connect,
>> then the connection drops at random times. I have just bought a new Acer
>> laptop
>> and installed jessie but the problems persist. I was at starbucks and
>> after connection,
>> the connection would drop in 4 to 6 seconds. Then I noticed in syslog that
>> the wpa_supplicant is cycling on and off at about that rate. One of the
>> messages
>> in syslog suggested deleting /run/wpa_supplicant/wlan0 which I did. But it
>> reappeared a few seconds later. There is also a
>> /var/run/wpa_supplicant/wlan0
>> which seems rather odd.
>>
>> Any clues, anybody??
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
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