There appears to be a race condition in the kernel where if two stations (using the same kernel) do a join IBSS at the same time the New Station event never comes in (as if no other station has joined the IBSS). Until this is sorted out, a sleep between starting the IBSS fixes the issue for the test. --- autotests/testAdHoc/adhoc_test.py | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/autotests/testAdHoc/adhoc_test.py b/autotests/testAdHoc/adhoc_test.py index 119c6c7e..27c87a82 100644 --- a/autotests/testAdHoc/adhoc_test.py +++ b/autotests/testAdHoc/adhoc_test.py @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ sys.path.append('../util') import iwd from iwd import IWD import testutil +from time import sleep class Test(unittest.TestCase): @@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ class Test(unittest.TestCase): self.assertIsNotNone(dev2) dev1.start_adhoc("AdHocNetwork", "secret123") + sleep(1) dev2.start_adhoc("AdHocNetwork", "secret123") dev1.adhoc_wait_for_connected(dev2.address) -- 2.21.1