[mythtv-users] Liva X wifi, hostapd: "deauthenticated due to local deauth request"

[A. F. Cano]

Hello,

While not strictly a Myth question, this list is likely to have the most
experience with this hardware (and I'm running Mythtv on it).

Debian Jessie 8.7, RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter (rtl8723be driver)

I've configured hostapd based on these instructions:

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-ubuntu-linux-setting-wireless-access-point/

And then tried way too many permutations of just about everything that seemed
relevant.  I still can't connect.  The android phone says "Authenticating" for
a long time and then  "Authentication problem".  A Ubiquiti router also can't
connect.  I've retyped and re-checked the password.  It is correct.

Many changes to the hostapd.conf file result in hostapd not starting.
/etc/init.d/hostapd status returns "active (exited)".  This situation is
referred to as a crash below.

The current settings result in "active (running)" but these errors occur.

Jan 24 16:17:39 liva hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:26:e8:c9:40:bb IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Jan 24 16:17:39 liva hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:26:e8:c9:40:bb IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 1)
Jan 24 16:17:48 liva hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:26:e8:c9:40:bb IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to local deauth request
Jan 24 16:18:02 liva hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:26:e8:c9:40:bb IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Jan 24 16:18:02 liva hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:26:e8:c9:40:bb IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 1)
Jan 24 16:18:11 liva hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:26:e8:c9:40:bb IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to local deauth request

I have checked countless pages based on the search of this error message but
found no fixes that work.

The signal quality is excellent.  The client devices are a few feet away from
the liva X.

Setting logger_syslog_level=1 (debug) results in hostapd not starting "active
(exited)" so I can't even obtain debugging data.

Does anyone have wifi/hostapd working on a liva X?  Is there something
special/weird about this particular chip?  Does anything obvious appear in
the non-commented parameters in hostapd.conf that follow?

If someone knows what combination of parameters need to be set and how,
to provide an open network I'd be willing to try that too.  The ones that
seemed relevant (see below) that I changed all resulted in crashes.  I
probably changed more than I remember now, with the same result.

Thanks!
Augustine


========  All the non-commented parametsrs in hostapd.conf ========

interface=wlan0
bridge=br0
driver=nl80211

logger_syslog=-1
logger_syslog_level=2		1 for debug: crash
logger_stdout=-1
logger_stdout_level=2

ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
ctrl_interface_group=0
ssid=<ssid>
country_code=US
hw_mode=g
channel=1			to survey the channels: crash
beacon_int=100
dtim_period=2
max_num_sta=255
rts_threshold=2347
fragm_threshold=2346
macaddr_acl=0
auth_algs=3			0: crash
ignore_broadcast_ssid=0

wmm_enabled=1
wmm_ac_bk_cwmin=4
wmm_ac_bk_cwmax=10
wmm_ac_bk_aifs=7
wmm_ac_bk_txop_limit=0
wmm_ac_bk_acm=0
wmm_ac_be_aifs=3
wmm_ac_be_cwmin=4
wmm_ac_be_cwmax=10
wmm_ac_be_txop_limit=0
wmm_ac_be_acm=0
wmm_ac_vi_aifs=2
wmm_ac_vi_cwmin=3
wmm_ac_vi_cwmax=4
wmm_ac_vi_txop_limit=94
wmm_ac_vi_acm=0
wmm_ac_vo_aifs=2
wmm_ac_vo_cwmin=2
wmm_ac_vo_cwmax=3
wmm_ac_vo_txop_limit=47
wmm_ac_vo_acm=0

eapol_key_index_workaround=0

eap_server=0

own_ip_addr=127.0.0.1

wpa=1				0: crash
wpa_passphrase=<asci-string>

wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK

wpa_pairwise=TKIP CCMP
rsn_pairwise=CCMP