wpa_supplicant not dettecting association?

[Michael Shiloh]

Joachim Ott wrote:
> 2009/3/5 Daniel Benoy <daniel at benoy.name>:
>> Also, I rebooted the thing and it got an IP just fine.  (!?)  Also I see that it got alerted through the wpa_cli action stuff at boot time just like I was expecting it to do earlier...
>>
>> I'm working on the theory that the timeout in wpa_supplicant is too short.. it would explain the flakyness.  Unfortunately the timeout value is hard coded, so I'll have to mess around to test that.
>>
>> also 'iwconfig eth0 power off' seems to make the issues go away.  All this intermittant behavior is reinforcing my theory that the timeout is too short and various factors make the time it takes shorter or longer causing intermittant behavior.
>>
>> Shame on wpa_supplicant for not making the timeout configurable.
> 
> If this is really an open AP, you don't need to hassle with
> wpa_supplicant, just do:
> 
>     iwconfig eth0 essid kitsune
> 
> Then use dhclient to get an IP.

Sometimes it's useful to force the removal of any previous key:

   iwconfig eth0 essid kitsune key off