WiFi Authentication Failures on OSD32MP1-RED

[Farid Azhar]

This is a new OSD32MP1-RED board we received recently. Board is booted via external MicroSD card.
We disabled the USB over Ethernet and connected the board via Ethernet port to the router. Don’t have debug port access to board, I use ssh.

I enabled the wlan0 and attempting to connect to wifi network. I tried two different routers to connect, DLink DIR-605L and HiTron CGNM-2250.
Connectoin with DLink DIR-605L is successfull but failed to connect with HiTron CGNM-2250

Following is my wlan0 configuration …..

OSD32MP1 running Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)

$ ls -al /etc/network/interfaces.d/
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 40 Sep 3 01:02 eth0
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 92 Sep 5 18:51 wlan0
$

$ cat /etc/network/interfaces.d/wlan0
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
$

$ cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
country=ca
update_config=1
p2p_disabled=1
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
# DLink DIR-605L Wireless N Router
# 2.4G SSID: AZRNet_N
network={
scan_ssid=1
ssid=”AZRNet_N”
psk=”MySimplePassword”
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}
# HiTron CGNM-2250 2.4/5.0 GHz Router
# 2.4G SSID: Azrwnet2G
network={
scan_ssid=1
ssid=”Azrwnet2G”
psk=”MySimplePassword”
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}
$

syslog shows followings messages for HiTron CGNM-2250 router (ssid=”Azrwnet2G”) connectoin failure

Sep 5 18:38:04 osd1rmk3 wpa_supplicant[333]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SSID-REENABLED id=0 ssid=”Azrwnet2G”
Sep 5 18:38:04 osd1rmk3 wpa_supplicant[333]: wlan0: Trying to associate with SSID ‘Azrwnet2G’
Sep 5 18:38:04 osd1rmk3 wpa_supplicant[333]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-ASSOC-REJECT bssid=00:00:00:00:00:00 status_code=16
Sep 5 18:38:04 osd1rmk3 wpa_supplicant[333]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SSID-TEMP-DISABLED id=0 ssid=”Azrwnet2G” auth_failures=4 duration=60 reason=CONN_FAILED

Please note HiTron CGNM-2250 router’s SSID and passwaord are correct and it succesfully connects to other devices, laptop, phone, RPi4 baord etc.
Only RED board is having failures.
I did try secure psk using wpa_passphrase command, but it did not work, gave same error.

HiTron CGNM-2250 is our main router RED baords needs to be connected to.

Has anyone seen this issue before? Is any thing wrong/missing in my wlan0 configuration.
Any help is much appreciated.

[Farid Azhar]

This problem resolved after connecting the RF Antenna (https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/anaren/66089-2430/3903374).
I was not usng the Antenna before. It looks Hitron modem/router needs more strong WiFi signals to do the authentication.

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