WPA-PSK problem on ARM

Jouni Malinen jkmaline at cc.hut.fi
Sat Oct 2 15:19:41 EDT 2004


On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:04:08PM -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 06:02:28PM +0930, Duncan Grove wrote:
> > During scanning wpa_supplicant decides to skip my AP, like this:
> > 
> > 0: 00:11:92:a1:92:a0 ssid='8021xtst' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0
> >   skip - no WPA/RSN IE
> 
> > ... despite the fact that iwlist (from wireless_tools.27) shows a wpa_ie:

> This sounds like a possible alignment issue in scan result parsing in
> wpa_supplicant. I'll need to take a closer look at how the netlink
> message is parsed.

Indeed, there were couple of places where scan results read unaligned
data. These are now fixed in development version in CVS. Please let me
know if the current development snapshot fixes the problems you saw with
the earlier version.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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