Joachim Ott wrote:
> 2009/3/5 Daniel Benoy <dan...@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


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