Comment 37 for bug 292054

I tested again with a different AP, open AP so no WEP or WPA, borrowed this AP just for testing so no other users, AP next to test PC (64/70 signal). Using wpasupplicant-0.6.4-2 and network-manager-0.7-0ubuntu1~nm1~intrepid1. Config in /etc/NetworkManager so no front-end delay. Hopefully this will eliminate any potential issues.

Conclusions: associating with wpa_supplicant takes ~60 seconds. Total connect time with NetworkManager is ~70 seconds. Manual 'ifup' takes ~15 seconds. wpa_supplicant goes through the same numerous states as before. Again, this is with no authentication necessary.

> please try to put exactly the config paramaters you see in syslog by
> NM in your wpa_supplicant.conf ... does that make the manual case
> behave similar to NM?

The config is exactly the same - there is not much to configure - only ssid, scan_ssid=1, key_mgmt=NONE, priority=1.
The manual case associates in ~10 seconds.

Steps to reproduce:
In one terminal run: wpa_supplicant -u -d -t
In another terminal run: NetworkManager --no-daemon
You should see wpa_supplicant going through many states before associating.
Then terminate both processes and try: wpa_supplicant -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -d -t