Linux 2.6.11.5 + Hostapd + Madwifi

Jouni Malinen jkmaline at cc.hut.fi
Sat Mar 26 22:06:18 EST 2005


On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:44:57PM +0100, Eden Akhavi wrote:

> I am running Linux 2.6.11.5 with a Atheros based Cardbus card

> When I run hostapd, I get:
> 
> Configuration file: ./madwifi.conf
> madwifi_set_iface_flags: dev_up=0
> Using interface ath0 with hwaddr 00:01:24:60:0b:2c and ssid 'wpa-test'
> madwifi_set_ieee8021x: enabled=1
> madwifi_configure_wpa: group key cipher=1
> ioctl[IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETPARAM]: Invalid argument
> Unable to set group key cipher to 1
> ath0: DRIVER Error configuring WPA state!
> IEEE 802.1X initialization failed.
> rmdir[ctrl_interface]: Bad address
> madwifi_set_privacy: enabled=0
> madwifi_set_ieee8021x: enabled=0
> madwifi_set_iface_flags: dev_up=0

I cannot reproduce this on Linux 2.6.11.5 using the current CVS
snapshots of madwifi and hostapd. I get following output with the exact
same configuration file:

Configuration file: madwifi.conf
madwifi_set_iface_flags: dev_up=0
Using interface ath0 with hwaddr 02:11:22:33:44:55 and ssid 'wpa-test'
madwifi_set_ieee8021x: enabled=1
madwifi_configure_wpa: group key cipher=1
madwifi_configure_wpa: pairwise key ciphers=0xa
madwifi_configure_wpa: key management algorithms=0x3
madwifi_configure_wpa: rsn capabilities=0x0
madwifi_configure_wpa: enable WPA= 0x1
madwifi_set_iface_flags: dev_up=1
madwifi_set_privacy: enabled=1
WPA: group state machine entering state GTK_INIT
GMK - hexdump(len=32): 8f 77 72 00 58 e8 17 75 7b b9 9a b8 fd 41 c1 1b 05 ea 79 d2 ab d0 d7 f4 8c 07 4a c8 b6 94 3d 85
GTK - hexdump(len=32): 59 02 fa 5d f0 07 e2 9e 2a 73 2b 97 d4 79 fe 09 4d de cf 1b c0 f6 44 89 c6 36 c2 7c 79 71 c8 6e
WPA: group state machine entering state SETKEYSDONE
madwifi_set_key: alg=TKIP addr=00:00:00:00:00:00 key_idx=1
Flushing old station entries
Deauthenticate all stations
l2_packet_receive - recv: Network is down

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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