wpa_supplicant && mandriva 2007

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 16:44 -0600, robm wrote:
> Both of these cards ario_cs and orinoco_cs are b only cards so  know 
> they won't work with wpa. Can I get them to work with dynamic WEP and
> PEAP?

Airo certainly will work with WPA on Windows.  It's not a function of
being just a 802.11 B card, it's a function of the firmware.  You can do
WPA on a B-only card just fine, you'll just never get anything over
11Mb/s throughput.  It just happened that by the time WPA became
popular, all the cards were B/G anyway.  But companies like Cisco that
had installed bases in enterprises added WPA to their B-only cards with
firmware updates.

Matthieu Castet started to reverse-engineer the WPA-capable firmware
interface for Airo cards that's in firmware versions 5.30.17 and later.
I've pushed some patches for that upstream to the airo driver, namely
detection of WPA-capable firmware, and reporting WPA Information
Elements in scan results.  But the actual WPA operation is still
unimplemented in the Linux driver.

Again, try a kernel 2.6.17 or later.  Messages from your logs, like:

WEXT auth param 7 value 0x0 - Failed to disable WPA in the driver.

indicate that you're not running the correct version of the kernel to
get the airo driver that fixes most of the errors wpa_supplicant spews.

What kernel version _are_ you running?

Dan

> as per my wpa_supplicant.conf below
> 
> # IEEE 802.1X with dynamic WEP keys using EAP-PEAP/MSCHAPv2
> 
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> 
> network={
>         ssid="uni"
>         key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
>         eap=PEAP
>         phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
>         identity="username"
>         password="password"
> }
> 
> # opennet>network={
>         ssid=""
>  key_mgmt=NONE
>         priority=2
> }
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Pavel Roskin wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 16:17 -0600, robm wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Ok I will try that , so would I still use
> >>
> >>-Dwext
> >>
> >>as well anyone using an orinoco_cs out there should  work for it too?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Orinoco driver doesn't support WPA yet.
> >
> >  
> >
>