wpa_supplicant fails with ndiswrapper andmadwifi driver for Atheros 802.11a/b/g card
Michael Reilly
michaelr at cisco.com
Wed Nov 10 15:19:06 EST 2004
Sorry for the delay in responding - I was out of town for a few days.
Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 10:38:39PM -0800, Michael Reilly wrote:
>
>
>>I have a Cisco CB21AG card which is based on the Atheros 802.11a/b/g chip
>>(5212 I think it is called). The card has a PCI id of vendor 0x168c,
>>device 0x0013.
>>
>>wpa_supplicant fails when I try to use WPA-PSK. I downloaded a trial copy
>>of driverloader and it works fine.
>
>
> Which NDIS driver are you using?
The driver provided by Cisco with the card. From the log-
ndiswrapper: driver net21 (,08/27/2004,1.2.0.3) added
I tried with a Linksys WPC55AG card last night (also Atheros based). Same
failure. The Linksys card also works fine with driverloader.
The Linksys driver -
ndiswrapper: driver ar5211.sys (,12/03/2003,2.4.2.33) added
>
>
>>The debug from wpa_supplicant indicates that the AP scan returns 0 bytes.
>>No suitable AP is found. I am not sure where the problem lies except that
>>it fails with both ndiswrapper and the madwifi drivers pulled from the
>>madwifi project's cvs last wednesday.
>
>
> Can you get scan any results with 'iwlist wlan0 scan'? Can you use
> ndiswrapper in plaintext mode with the same AP?
Yes to both. I also tried a WRT54GS last night and neither card worked with
ndiswrapper but both work fine with driverloader.
>
>
>>What debugs should I obtain in order to solve this problem? I ran
>>wpa_supplicant with the -dd command line option and saw that the sacn
>>failed. (Sorry I lost the log I captured. I will recreate it later and
>>post it as a followup to this message.)
>
>
> That would be suitable log file for hostap (i.e., wpa_supplicant)
> mailing list.
>
>
>>I am using wpa_supplicant 2.5 and ndiswrapper 0.10 (I tried ndiswrapper
>>0.11 but the perl script prints out a number of error messages so went back
>>to version 0.10). The access point is a Cisco 1100.
>
>
> Which firmware version is used in the AP? I haven't tested ndiswrapper
> with Cisco APs, but wpa_supplicant and Atheros-based cards have worked
> nicely with Cisco APs.
IOS 12.3(2)JA in the Cisco. Sveasoft satori released in the WRT54GS
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 08:46:12AM +0100, Wouter de Jong wrote:
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>>Does anyone else have this up and running with an Atheros-chip ?
>
>
> Yes, worked fine with ndiswrapper the last time I tested (a long time
> ago, though).
>
Something seems to have broken since you tested it. I have the same failure
with ndiswrapper 0.10 and 0.11 so it has been broken at least that long.
(Re-tested both last night.)
michael
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