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

Stefan gentoopower at yahoo.de
Tue Jul 5 16:41:24 EDT 2005


Mike Campbell wrote:

> On 7/5/2005 2:16 PM, Stefan wrote:
>
>> Mike Campbell wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 7/5/2005 10:42 AM, Jouni Malinen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:30:53AM -0500, Mike Campbell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>    
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>    
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> For some reason the wpa_ie_len and rsn_ie_len is 0 for all found AP.
>>>>>    
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>  
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>>>  
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry about replying in html format earlier. I've resent my previous
>>> update in text only mode:
>>>
>>> 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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> Yeah I've been down that road. I've tried the patch and even the older
> 0.38 version. No luck anywhere.
>
I'm not sure if the ipw2100 is reporting to syslog the capability of
wpa, but if I were you I would check the log and also loaded modules, we
had this before, that manually installed drivers weren't loaded because
some older versions which came with the distro was loaded before.

	

	
		
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