wpa_supplicant and hostap driver - no association with AP

[Jouni Malinen]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 07:18:30PM +0200, Zdenek Pizl wrote:

> there is an output from wpa_supplicant :

> l2_packet_receive - recv: Network is down
> Starting AP scan (specific SSID)
> Scan SSID - hexdump_ascii(len=8):
>      53 59 53 54 49 4e 45 54                           SYSTINET
> ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: Operation not supported
> Failed to initiate AP scan.

It looks like something set the network interface down. wpa_supplicant
requires that the interface is up. Likewise, the driver will completely
disable to card when the interface is down, so AP scans will not work
either.

Are you using a DHCP client that could be setting the interface down if
it fails to update a lease for the IP addrss?

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA