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jameh0

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Registered: 2013-04-06

Posts: 40

deauthenticating from <mac> by local choice (reason=3) loop

I just got a D-Link DWA-643 external (ExpressCard 38) wireless card:

06:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR5418 Wireless Network Adapter [AR5008E 802.11(a)bgn]
(PCI-Express) (rev 01)
        Subsystem: D-Link System Inc Device 3a6f
        Kernel driver in use: ath9k
        Kernel modules: ath9k, wl

* I am trying to get it to connect to a WPA2 network.
* I have not been able to connect to any network yet.

Here, this model is listed as supported under the ath9k kernel module.

Controlled experiment (similar sequence of steps works for my other wireless card):

• Turn on card

  ip link set wls5 up

  *light on card turns on*

• Start wpa_supplicant

  wpa_supplicant -i wls5 -D nl80211 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd

At this point, this command outputs: http://hastebin.com/canuhafode

Here is dmesg: http://hastebin.com/yikayehoqo (experiment starts at ~4000s)
Note specifically the lines "deauthenticating from <mac> by local choice (reason=3)" repeating periodically

My wpa_supplicant.conf is very simple, and works for my other card: http://hastebin.com/sodekeyuyu

What I've tried

Someone here (and others across the net) had a similar error message with the ath9k or ath5k module, and said what fixed their problem was using the "nohwcrypt=1" option for the module, i.e. writing a "custom_wireless.conf" in /etc/modprobe.d/ with:

option ath9k nohwcrypt=1

This did not work for me, and unlike the above linked post, I do not have "ath9k" in my MODULES list of mkinitcpio.conf (I remade my image to be sure).

I'm really not sure where to go from here.

Edit:

My system is running kernel  3.12.9-2-ARCH

Edit 2:

There is more discussion on the ath9k mailing list here

Last edited by jameh0 (2014-02-27 21:01:52)

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AnAkkk

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Registered: 2014-03-03

Posts: 148

Re: deauthenticating from <mac> by local choice (reason=3) loop

Not sure if we've the same issue, but I've had the same error message (deauthenticating from <mac> by local choice (reason=3)) since the upgrade of the wpa_supplicant package to 2.1-3. The only solution I've found is to go back to 2.0-4.
I only have the issue with my school wireless network.

Last edited by AnAkkk (2014-04-12 13:34:30)