can't get WPA-PSK working with ipw2100 against linksys WRT54G

Stefan gentoopower at yahoo.de
Tue Jul 5 15:16:28 EDT 2005


Mike Campbell wrote:

>On 7/5/2005 10:42 AM, Jouni Malinen wrote:
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>>On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:30:53AM -0500, Mike Campbell wrote:
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>>>I've tried about all I can think of and still can't get a WPA
>>>connection to work on my Fedora FC4 box. I can get WEP working just
>>>fine using the ipw2100 drivers but WPA always fails with the same
>>>error. I have tried version 3.9 and 4.3 but no difference in the
>>>outcome.
>>>      
>>>
>>Which version of the ipw2100 driver are you using? You might also
>>consider testing wpa_supplicant v0.3.8 since ipw driver interface was
>>changed and the ipw2100/2200 drivers may not be fully in sync with the
>>driver interface. wpa_supplicant 0.3.9 changes this interface to a newer
>>one, so if your driver is still using the old version, 0.3.8 may work
>>better.
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>>>When I run wpa_supplicant I see 2 possible problem areas:
>>>
>>>I see the below message repeated 5-6 times each with a different
>>>key_idx value but always the operation not supported and failed to set
>>>encryption:
>>>
>>>wpa_driver_ipw_set_key: alg=none key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
>>>ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported
>>>Failed to set encryption.
>>>      
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>>This is likely to be fine; wpa_supplicant just tries to make sure old
>>keys are removed and the driver may report that it fails to remove keys
>>that were not configured in the first place.
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>>>Then later on when it scans the AP's it is not able to find a suitable
>>>one as I get:
>>>
>>>Received 781 bytes of scan results (4 BSSes)
>>>Scan results: 4
>>>Selecting BSS from priority group 5
>>>0: 00:13:10:32:af:21 ssid='MCAMPBELL' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x11
>>>  skip - no WPA/RSN IE
>>>      
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>>>For some reason the wpa_ie_len and rsn_ie_len is 0 for all found AP.
>>>      
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>>This is more serious issue. It looks like the driver does not report
>>that the AP is using WPA. Unless you are already using the latest
>>version of the driver, I would recommend updating it first.
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Did you read that on the ipw2100 site?

http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/

They are mentioning, that the latest 1.1.0 is not working with the
latest wpa_supplicant and they offer a patch.
Also there is a little shell skript on that page that is supposed to
help you setup your box.

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>Sorry about replying in html format earlier. I've resent my previous 
>update in text only mode:
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>I already had the latest ipw2100 files - driver is 1.1.0 and the
>firmware is 0.55. I took your suggestion and went and downloaded and
>compile the wpa_supplicant 0.38 and still have the same problem. No
>difference in the output.
>
>The odd part is that all detected AP's have the 0 length for the wpa_ie
>and rsn_ie. What do these values mean? What would be expected here?
>
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