Help debug my authentication issue? (Part 1)

Frank Rizzo thefrankrizzo at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 15 18:05:12 EDT 2015


On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 15:00:38 -0700, Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi> wrote:

> Yes, it looks like the station is able to receive the
> EAP-Request/Identity from the AP and at least wpa_supplicant is trying
> to send out the response. Since hostapd logs did not show that response
> arrive, it is being dropped somewhere in the path from wpa_supplicant to
> host.
>
> A wireless sniffer could be used to confirm whether the frame was really
> sent by the driver.

Assuming I HAD such a thing, which I do not.  :-\

> Which WLAN driver are you using on the AP and how is the network
> configured as far as bridging is used (i.e., is the WLAN netdev in a
> bridge)?

interface=wlan0
bridge=br0
driver=nl80211


I have that bridge defined, but I can easily remove it if that's a test  
that you think would reveal something.  Ultimately, it'll be tablets  
talking to the host over a VLAN.

-Frank


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