problem with madwifi drivers

[YenJung Chang]

AFAIK, the interface name of madwifi is "ath0", hence, the interface
in your command should be -iath0, not -iwlan0.

yj.



On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:56:29 +0100, pepe perez <reeopp at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there!!!
> 
> First of all I must say I have only been running SuSE on my laptop for 2
> months so I'm a total newbie (just as a warning)
> 
> I'm trying t set up WPA_supplicant 0.2.5 with madwifi drivers (cvs
> 20041021). I have compiled the madwifi drives properly (I think!!) according
> to web page:
> 
> http://madwifiwiki.thewebhost.de/wiki/MadwifiConceptronicC54COnRedHat9
> 
> and they seem to work:
> 
> Nov 25 12:23:50 dhcppc0 kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:03:00.0 (0000 ->
> 0002)
> Nov 25 12:23:50 dhcppc0 kernel: ath_pci: cache line size not set; forcing 32
> Nov 25 12:23:50 dhcppc0 kernel: ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 5ghz radio 4.6
> Nov 25 12:23:50 dhcppc0 kernel: ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
> Nov 25 12:23:50 dhcppc0 kernel: ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
> 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> Nov 25 12:23:50 dhcppc0 kernel: ath0: 802.11 address: 00:80:5a:22:11:78
> Nov 25 12:23:50 dhcppc0 kernel: ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x10800000, irq=11
> Nov 25 12:23:50 dhcppc0 kernel: Vendor = 0x168c   id=0x13 subsys: -1
> 
> I have also configure the .config for the wpa_supplicant:
> 
> CONFIG_DRIVER_MADWIFI=y
> CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXTENSION=y
> CONFIG_IEEE8021X_EAPOL=y
> CONFIG_EAP_MD5=y
> CONFIG_MSCHAPV2=y
> CONFIG_EAP_TLS=y
> CONFIG_EAP_PEAP=y
> CONFIG_EAP_TTLS=y
> CONFIG_EAP_GTC=y
> CONFIG_EAP_OTP=y
> CONFIG_EAP_SIM=y
> CONFIG_EAP_AKA=y
> CONFIG_EAP_PSK=y
> CONFIG_EAP_LEAP=y
> CONFIG_PCSC=y
> 
> I've updated the make file to look for the madwifi drivers
> 
> ifdef CONFIG_DRIVER_MADWIFI
> CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_DRIVER_MADWIFI
> CFLAGS += -I/usr/src/madwifi            # change to reflect local setup
> OBJS += driver_madwifi.o
> CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXTENSION=y
> endif
> 
> everything seemed to compile properly (I don't have any log sorry). I did
> update the wpa_supplicant.conf file in /etc:
> 
> network={
> ssid="mylan"
> scan_ssid=1
> proto=WPA
> key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> pairwise=TKIP
> group=TKIP
> priority=1
> psk="mypassword"
> }
> 
> but when I try to start supplicant:
> 
> dhcppc0:/home/oscar/wpa_supplicant-0.2.5 # wpa_supplicant -iwlan0
> -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d
> Configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' -> '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
> Reading configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
> ctrl_interface='/var/run/wpa_supplicant'
> ctrl_interface_group=0
> eapol_version=1
> ap_scan=1
> Priority group 1
>    id=0 ssid='xxxxxxxx'
> EAPOL: SUPP_PAE entering state DISCONNECTED
> EAPOL: KEY_RX entering state NO_KEY_RECEIVE
> EAPOL: SUPP_BE entering state INITIALIZE
> EAP: EAP entering state DISABLED
> EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0
> EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0
> ioctl[SIOCGIFINDEX]: No such device
> wpa_driver_madwifi_set_wpa: enabled=0
> ioctl[IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETOPTIE]: No such device
> ioctl[IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETPARAM]: No such device
> ioctl[IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETPARAM]: No such device
> ioctl[IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETPARAM]: No such device
> Failed to disable WPA in the driver.
> wpa_driver_madwifi_set_drop_unencrypted: enabled=0
> ioctl[IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETPARAM]: No such device
> wpa_driver_madwifi_set_countermeasures: enabled=0
> ioctl[IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETPARAM]: No such device
> SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
> dhcppc0:/home/oscar/wpa_supplicant-0.2.5 #
> 
> I suspected from the line "wpa_driver_madwifi_set_wpa: enabled=0" and Ive
> been searching for any information in the form, in fact there is a similar
> problem in september "Atheros 5212 and WPA issues" but I didn't fin any
> solution on there...
> 
> Does anybody have any idea???? A I told you I'm quite new and I'm pretty
> lost!!!
> thanks anyway!
> Oscar
> 
> Other info which may help: I'm running SuSE9.1 with kernel 2.6.4-52.. If you
> need any other information, please let me know!
> 
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