hostapd 0.3.9 and madwifi HEAD

Jouni Malinen jkmaline at cc.hut.fi
Mon Oct 10 00:20:31 EDT 2005


On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 06:06:29PM +0200, Nick Stefaniak wrote:

> it seems that I have similar problem. I am trying to use hostapd 0.4.5 with 
> lastest madwifi driver (both compiled cleanly) on linux 2.6.11.12 box with 
> Atheros AR5212 card. When I run hostapd I get something like this :
> 
> Using interface ath0 with hwaddr 00:11:95:91:8f:5d and ssid 'testnet'
> Flushing old station entries
> Deauthenticate all stations
> l2_packet_receive - recvfrom: Network is down
> ath0: STA 00:12:f0:db:76:02 IEEE 802.11: associated
> ath0: STA 00:12:f0:db:76:02 WPA: event 1 notification
> ath0: STA 00:12:f0:db:76:02 WPA: start authentication
> ath0: STA 00:12:f0:db:76:02 IEEE 802.1X: unauthorizing port
> ath0: STA 00:12:f0:db:76:02 WPA: sending 1/4 msg of 4-Way Handshake
> ath0: STA 00:12:f0:db:76:02 WPA: EAPOL-Key timeout

> ioctl[IEEE80211_IOCTL_DELKEY]: No such file or directory
> ioctl[IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETMLME]: No such file or directory

> Firstly - what means "l2_packet_receive - recvfrom: Network is down" ? hostapd 
> is configured for WPA-PSK, windows client can't authenticate. And I really 
> have not got any idea what is the source of these errors from ioctl..

driver_madwifi.c is setting interface down during initialization and
that causes the message about network being down. The interface is
brought after this and this message can be ignored. Likwise, those ioctl
messages can be ignored. hostapd is trying to clear possibly remaining
configuration and the driver is reporting that there was nothing to
remove.

Do you have the ath0 interface added to a bridge interface? If yes, have
you added bridge=br0 line in hostapd.conf?

I tested the current madwifi CVS version (from yesterday) and hostapd
devel branch (0.4.x) and I was able to use WPA-PSK/TKIP, WPA-PSK/CCMP,
and WPA2-PSK/CCMP without problems.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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