Re: RPi 4b Wifi Device

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

tomdean%wavecable.com@localhost ("Thomas D. Dean") writes:

># wpa_cli status
>Selected interface 'bwfm0'
>21:58:44.815: bssid=60:38:e0:db:a9:7a
>freq=0
>ssid=tddhome
>id=0
>mode=station
>pairwise_cipher=TKIP
>group_cipher=TKIP
>key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
>wpa_state=GROUP_HANDSHAKE
>ip_address=169.254.135.120
>address=e4:5f:01:da:eb:46

>I don't understand where the inet 169.254.135.120 comes from. The router 
>pool is 192.168.1.xxx.

169.254.x.x is a "link local" address. dhcpcd falls back to such an
address, if it doesn't get an answer from a dhcp server. Apparently
wpa_supplicant cannot connect to the network.

>wpa_state=GROUP_HANDSHAKE

says that it still tries to associate. When it's done this would
change to COMPLETED.