Ubuntu
wpasupplicant package

Wifi hotspot is broken

Bug #2020083 reported by Mark Jansen
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wpasupplicant (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS

The current version of wpa_supplicant (v2.10) fails to operate a Wifi hotspot correctly. I can enable the hotspot, clients can see the hotspot, but clients will never authenticate/connect to the hotspot.

If I downgrade wpa_supplicant to v2.9, the hotspot works correctly and clients can connect.

Daniel Manrique (roadmr)
affects: canonical-identity-provider → wpasupplicant (Ubuntu)
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Xu Zhen (xuzhen666) wrote (last edit ):

I also met this bug with wpasupplicant 2:2.10-12 in Ubuntu 23.04/23.10.

The hotspots created by the create_ap script from https://github.com/lakinduakash/linux-wifi-hotspot can be connected normally, only those created by the network manager will fail.

After some testing, I can confirm that this problem has been fixed upstream by this commit https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=5f3cdc06489ff1ec16d75c3ff41f5ac7c2f62c7c

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in wpasupplicant (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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