wpa_supplicant && mandriva 2007

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 23:02 -0600, robm wrote:
> its  2.6.15-27-386  so I am a candidate for candidate for a kernel upgrade.

Note that the upgrade will only help your for airo right now.  But what
kind of card is your orinoco card?  Is it a hermes I card, or a prism2
or prism2.5 card?  If it's a hermes, you'll probably never get WPA :)
But if it's a prism2/2.5, you can use the hostap driver and you just
might.

Dan

> 
> 
> Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> >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.
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >
> >  
> >
>