madwifi talking to intel 2011b

Brad Langhorst brad at langhorst.com
Wed Aug 16 23:00:36 EDT 2006


I have a nice wpa_supplicant config set up so it automatically chooses a 
good nework in most places i travel to...
However at my in-law's house I have an intel 2011b access point that wpa 
_supplicant can't seem to assocate with.

There is no WPA - or even WEP enabled, it accepts broadcast addresses.

I can associate with the AP if i turn off wpa_supplicant and manually 
associate.


What might be wrong?
Here's the config snippit
network={
         ssid="ppwn"
#        bssid=00:03:47:b4:c2:3b
         key_mgmt=NONE
         scan_ssid=1
         priority=100
}

i've tried it with and without scan_ssid=1 and with and without the bssid

here's the result of running sudo wpa_supplicant -Dmadwifi -iath0 
-c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -ddd

Received 543 bytes of scan results (3 BSSes)
Scan results: 3
Selecting BSS from priority group 100
0: 00:03:47:b4:c2:3b ssid='ppwn' wpa_ie_len=20 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x1
wpa_parse_wpa_ie_wpa: ie count botch (pairwise), count 0 left 6
    skip WPA IE - parse failed
1: 00:03:47:14:86:45 ssid='ppwn' wpa_ie_len=20 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x1
wpa_parse_wpa_ie_wpa: ie count botch (pairwise), count 0 left 6
    skip WPA IE - parse failed
2: 00:14:bf:c8:b6:7f ssid='FIOS' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x11
    skip - no WPA/RSN IE



I don't understand why wpa_ie_len=20 - it should be 0 i think.
Then this business about "parse failed" does not turn anything up in a 
google search (other than the source code)


I can't find anything in the AP settings that look like it would ask for 
wpa...


any suggestions?

Brad




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