illumos gate

I have an ASUS laptop with wireless hardware that uses the arn driver. With nwam, it always reports ``connecting to cutie'', my WPA2 network, but the connection never completes. I does work with a manual configuration. To begin, I made sure that svc:/network/physical:default and svc:/network/physical:nwam were both disabled. Then, I used these commands to get a connection to my WPA2 network:

    <root@asus># ifconfig arn0 plumb
    <root@asus># cat > /tmp/mykey
    ...
    ^D
    <root@asus># chmod 400 /tmp/mykey
    <root@asus># dladm create-secobj -c wpa -f /tmp/mykey mykey
    <root@asus># dladm connect-wifi -k mykey -e cutie arn0
    /* Long pause */
    <root@asus># ifconfig arn0 dhcp start

The temporary file contained the password for my WPA2 network. The connection was successful.

Under Windows 10, the automatic connection succeeds. With a Solaris 11.3 live DVD, it also stuck waiting for the connect.

The connect timeout is set at 10 seconds. When I increased it to 60 seconds, it still never connected.

This behavior is related to bug #2577, as well as these messages I found:

    o Title: nwam + iwh0 broken in recent opensolaris builds?
    o URL: https://www.mail-archive.com/nwam-discuss@opensolaris.org/msg00016.html
    o Title: Code Review for illumos-wpa-enterprise
    o URL: http://bugs.31bits.net/illumos/mirror/www.opensolaris.cz/builds/illumos-wpa-enterprise/webrev/
    o Title: [Bugs-team] NWAM breaks WiFi drivers (again)?
    o URL: https://openindiana.org/pipermail/bugs-team/2011-November/000031.html

I'm guessing that the bug is in nwam, but it might also be in the arn driver.