can't associate using wpa_supplicant, sharp zaurus and Sandisk wifi card

[Harondel J. Sibble]

On 21 Sep 2006 at 16:21, Dan Williams wrote:

> (a) if your AP does not broadcast it's SSID, you _need_ to use ap_scan=2
> (b) if you AP does broadcast it's SSID, you don't need to use ap_scan=2

Man this is frustrating, after enabling ssid broadcast on the router, 
I was able to successfully associate. As per the above, I changed the 
ap_scan setting to 2 and disabled ssid broadcast on the router, no 
other changes were made on either the router or the Zaurus.  Tried to 
connect, it still failed as per my OP.  I then reversed both settings 
and tried again and now it won't connect at all, same problem as my 
OP. This configuration worked fine yesterday. Currently ap_scan=1 and 
ssid broadcase is enabled.

Selected interface 'wlan0'
Interactive mode

> status
wpa_state=ASSOCIATING
> <2>Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
<2>Trying to associate with 00:0f:66:44:22:28 (SSID='myssid' 
freq=2412 MHz)
<2>Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
<2>Trying to associate with 00:0f:66:44:22:28 (SSID='myssid' 
freq=2412 MHz)
<2>Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
<2>Trying to associate with 00:0f:66:44:22:28 (SSID='myssid' 
freq=2412 MHz)
<2>Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
<2>Trying to associate with 00:0f:66:44:22:28 (SSID='myssid' 
freq=2412 MHz)




IWlist still reports TKIP as the crypto algorithm, even though the 
router is set to AES only.

wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:0F:66:44:22:28
                    ESSID:"myssid"
                    Mode:Master
                    Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
                    Signal level=-44 dBm  Noise level=-84 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 
Mb/s
                              24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:resp_rate=10
                    IE: WPA Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK

I'm guessing this is probably a router bug? I see the DD-WRT folks 
just came out with V23 SP2, I may give that a try and see if the 
issue is resolved....

Any other suggestions?
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