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Cannot connect to open WLAN networks; dhclient: send_packet: No buffer space available

Open probonopd opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Can't get an IP address:

% wpa_supplicant -v       
wpa_supplicant v2.10
Copyright (c) 2003-2022, Jouni Malinen <[email protected]> and contributors

% sudo cat /var/log/messages
Dec 18 06:46:46 Users-TravelMate-B117-M dhclient[2648]: send_packet: No buffer space available
Dec 18 06:47:16 Users-TravelMate-B117-M syslogd: last message repeated 3 times
Dec 18 06:47:19 Users-TravelMate-B117-M dhclient[2648]: connection closed
Dec 18 06:47:19 Users-TravelMate-B117-M dhclient[2648]: exiting.
Dec 18 06:47:19 Users-TravelMate-B117-M dhclient[2720]: send_packet: No buffer space available
Dec 18 06:47:57 Users-TravelMate-B117-M syslogd: last message repeated 4 times

% sudo dhclient wlan0  
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

% wpa_cli scan_results 
Selected interface 'wlan0'
bssid / frequency / signal level / flags / ssid
0e:f0:21:22:8e:14       5180    -50     [WPA2-EAP-CCMP][ESS][UTF-8]     svciob
06:f0:21:22:8e:14       5180    -51     [ESS][UTF-8]    OEBB
0e:f0:21:21:f6:28       5200    -94     [WPA2-EAP-CCMP][ESS][UTF-8]     svciob
06:f0:21:21:f6:28       5200    -94     [ESS][UTF-8]    OEBB
0e:f0:21:22:8e:2b       5220    -88     [WPA2-EAP-CCMP][ESS][UTF-8]     svciob
06:f0:21:22:8e:2b       5220    -89     [ESS][UTF-8]    OEBB

Note that it looks like the same BSSID operates multiple SSIDs, some of which are open and some are not. Is this what FreeBSD bug 264238 is referring to when it talks about "fails to associate to open secondary VAP when primaty VAP is WPA"?

probonopd avatar Dec 18 '22 23:12 probonopd

Note to self, use Android tethering as a workaround in the meantime.

probonopd avatar Jan 27 '23 08:01 probonopd

Same seems to be true for WIFIONICE

probonopd avatar Jun 13 '23 06:06 probonopd