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Method private structure allocated failure

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c
Domain
embedded-iot

Research direction

Start with the linked user/user_main.c example and reproduce the WPA2 Enterprise connection using ESP8266_NONOS_SDK_V2.0.0_16_08_10, recording heap usage and the “Method private structure allocated failure” output. Compare the minimal username/password case with the PEM certificate and private-key case; done means identifying the allocation failure’s cause and documenting a verified correction or limitation.

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Description

I added some of the enterprise functions to the basic_example and linked with wpa2, but I'm getting what sounds like an out of memory error even with this minimal program. This is with ESP8266_NONOS_SDK_V2.0.0_16_08_10, any ideas? I have the same error if I try a PEM client certificate and private key.

wifi_set_opmode(STATION_MODE);
wifi_station_set_wpa2_enterprise_auth(true);
wifi_station_set_reconnect_policy(false);
wifi_station_set_enterprise_username((u8*)EAP_USER, os_strlen(EAP_USER));
wifi_station_set_enterprise_password((u8*)EAP_PASSWORD, os_strlen(EAP_PASSWORD));
wifi_station_connect();

heap 46040 wifi status 1
state: 2 -> 0 (0)
scandone
state: 0 -> 2 (b0)
state: 2 -> 3 (0)
state: 3 -> 5 (10)
add 0
aid 1
cnt
Method private structure allocated failure

Full program here.
https://github.com/dfries/source-code-examples/blob/wpa2-eap/basic_example/user/user_main.c

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