QUERY · ISSUE

ESP32C3 Connecting to wifi with wrong password will not feedback STAT_WRONG_PASSWORD status

openby walklinewangopened 2023-05-25updated 2023-11-10

bug

I'm building firmware with idf v4.4.4 and master branch pulled yesterday, in my issue I given a wrong password to connect to wifi, but checking network.status() will print logs like below instead of STAT_WRONG_PASSWORD

I (15944) wifi: STA_DISCONNECTED, reason:15
I (18354) wifi: STA_DISCONNECTED, reason:205

According to the document Wi-Fi Reason Code, the reason:205 description is Espressif-specific Wi-Fi reason code: the connection to the AP has failed. and code name is CONNECTION_FAIL

In MicroPython documentation we can find a constant named STAT_CONNECT_FAIL, but it's definition only can found in esp8266 port, I think there must be a connection between CONNECTION_FAIL and STAT_CONNECT_FAIL

CANDIDATE · PULL REQUEST

esp32/modnetwork: Still try to reconnect to WLAN even with AUTH_FAIL.

closedby dpgeorgeopened 2019-06-12updated 2019-06-25

port-esp32

WIFI_REASON_AUTH_FAIL does not necessarily mean the password is wrong, and a wrong password may not lead to a WIFI_REASON_AUTH_FAIL error code. So to improve reliability connecting to a WLAN always reconnect regardless of the error.

See issue #3537 and #4838

Assessment

Q Qwen · medium

The query (issue #11625) reports that ESP32C3 doesn't properly report STAT_WRONG_PASSWORD when WiFi connection fails with wrong password, instead showing generic disconnect reason codes. The candidate PR (#4842) addresses a different but related issue: it changes the reconnection behavior to retry even on AUTH_FAIL errors because AUTH_FAIL doesn't reliably indicate password errors. While both deal with ESP32 WiFi authentication failure handling, the PR doesn't fix the missing status code mapping issue that the query is about. The PR focuses on reconnection logic, not on properly mapping ESP-IDF reason codes to MicroPython status constants.

Suggested action

Keep both items open. The PR addresses reconnection reliability, while the issue needs a fix to properly map ESP-IDF reason codes (like 205 CONNECTION_FAIL) to appropriate MicroPython status constants (STAT_WRONG_PASSWORD, STAT_CONNECT_FAIL, etc.).

ESP32C3 Connecting to wifi with wrong password will not feedback STAT_WRONG_PASSWORD status

esp32/modnetwork: Still try to reconnect to WLAN even with AUTH_FAIL.

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