Need hints on debugging weird association problem

[Kalle Valo]

ext Dmitry Astapov <dastapov at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,

Hi,

> I'm having a weird association problem, where my N810 would not
> associate to AP that happily supports other WiFi clients (notebooks,
> iPhones, Nokia smartphone, etc). Full info is in bug 4676 (
> https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4676 ).
>
> I want to have a better understanding of what's going on during
> association. With wpa_supplicant, for example, I could have tried to
> raise debug level and see what kind of requests and responses are
> going through the driver.
>
> N810 does not have wpa_supplicant, though.
>
> I've googled that with a bit of driver patching wpa_supplicant could
> be made to work. However it is not clear whether or not I would get
> the debug capabilities I need this way.
>
> Could you please give me any hints on how to collect more debug info and
> hopefuly have that bug fixed?

Taking a network dump (or airlogs) with a 3rd device in monitor mode
usually tells a lot about the problem. Google for "monitor mode" for
more info.

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Kalle Valo