skip - could not parse WPA/RSN IE

[Jouni Malinen]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 11:16:40PM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote:

> I am trying to get wpa_supplicant to work on my Dell Inspiron 1150
> laptop (TrueMobile 1350 card -- BCM4306 chipset).  I finally got
> ndiswrapper to work with HP drivers (I tried two Dell drivers and one
> from eMachines first).  I run:

Which version of ndiswrapper are you using?

> wpa_supplicant -dd -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -w -Dndiswrapper

> Selecting BSS from priority group 0
> 0: 00:0f:66:5a:32:7c ssid='GuenterWLAN' wpa_ie_len=24 rsn_ie_len=0
>    skip - could not parse WPA/RSN IE

wpa_supplicant did not like something in the WPA IE. Could you please
send 'iwlist wlan0 scan' output? Additionally, it could be useful to
test the attached patch which will make wpa_supplicant print out bit
more debug information when this messages is triggered. You can apply it
to 0.2.5 version by running
'patch -p0 < path_to_patch/wpa_ie_parse.patch'.

> I am using wpa_supplicant 0.2.5.  Any ideas what might be happening
> here?

This is somewhat surprising error and I did not find a matching code
path from wpa_supplicant.. WPA IE parser is supposed to print out more
information about all error cases after that "could not parse" line, but
your debug log did not include any such information.. I would like to
first manually verify whether the WPA IE reported by the driver is
indeed invalid.

> When using the Dell drivers, BTW, wpa_supplicant reports that WPA isn't
> supported, even though I have already gotten it working fine in Windows.

This is something that should be reported on ndiswrapper mailing list..

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA