ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Tue Jun 17 14:52:27 EDT 2008


> wpa_supplicant -B -ieth1 -Dwext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> i get:
> ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
> WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not
> supported
> WEXT auth param 5 value 0x1 -

You can safely ignore this, in fact, I asked Jouni before to remove it
because all the users are reporting this as an error when in fact it is
not.

Read the debug log you get with an emphasis on the state machine
transitions, and realise that wpa supplicant isn't even finding an AP.

johannes
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