wpa_supplicant & ipw2100 on Ubuntu 5.04: Cannot negotiate WPA encryption

Alex Willmer alex
Thu Apr 14 15:05:28 PDT 2005 

Having upgraded to Ubuntu 5.04 last week I was dissapointed to learn 
they still don't support WPA out of the box, although wpa_supplicant 
0.3.8 is now included in Universe (Debian Main) and they ship with 
ipw2100 1.0.2, including firmware 1.3.0.

However I'm unable to get wpa_supplicant to negotiate WPA encryption, 
using either the provided packages or wpa_supplicant (from source) + 
{ipw2100 1.0.4 (from source), ipw2100 1.1.0 (from source)}.

In all my attempts the error returned by wpa_supplicant has been:

ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported

I'm at a loss as to what's causing this, the same hardware worked with 
Ubuntu 4.10. Earlier messages have suggested this occurs if 
CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not enabled, but this is not the case AFAICT.

Any advice or help would be most appreciated. Full debugging output and 
.config file of packaged kernel is appended.

With thanks

Alex
--
root at martha:/home/alex # killall wpa_supplicant; 
/usr/local/sbin/wpa_supplicant -i eth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd
wpa_supplicant: no process killed
Initializing interface 'eth1' conf '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 
'default'
Configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' -> '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
Reading configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
Line: 1 - start of a new network block
ssid - hexdump_ascii(len=14):
     6d 6f 72 65 61 74 69 2e 6f 72 67 2e 75 6b         moreati.org.uk
proto: 0x1
key_mgmt: 0x2
PSK (ASCII passphrase) - hexdump_ascii(len=13): [REMOVED]
PSK (from passphrase) - hexdump(len=32): [REMOVED]
Line: 9 - start of a new network block
ssid - hexdump_ascii(len=10):
     77 69 6c 6c 6d 65 72 6e 65 74                     willmernet
proto: 0x1
key_mgmt: 0x2
PSK (ASCII passphrase) - hexdump_ascii(len=12): [REMOVED]
PSK (from passphrase) - hexdump(len=32): [REMOVED]
Priority group 0
   id=0 ssid='moreati.org.uk'
   id=1 ssid='willmernet'
Initializing interface (2) 'eth1'
wpa_driver_ipw_init is called
Own MAC address: 00:04:23:6b:34:75
wpa_driver_ipw_set_wpa: enabled=1
ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported
wpa_driver_ipw_set_key: alg=none key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported
Failed to set encryption.
wpa_driver_ipw_set_key: alg=none key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported
Failed to set encryption.
wpa_driver_ipw_set_key: alg=none key_idx=2 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported
Failed to set encryption.
wpa_driver_ipw_set_key: alg=none key_idx=3 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported
Failed to set encryption.
wpa_driver_ipw_set_countermeasures: enabled=0
ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported
wpa_driver_ipw_set_drop_unencrypted: enabled=1
ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported
Setting scan request: 0 sec 100000 usec
Wireless event: cmd=0x8b06 len=8
RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'eth1' added
RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'eth1' added
Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID)
Scan timeout - try to get results
Received 233 bytes of scan results (1 BSSes)
Scan results: 1
Selecting BSS from priority group 0
0: 00:0f:66:d3:78:80 ssid='moreati.org.uk' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0
   skip - no WPA/RSN IE
No suitable AP found.
Setting scan request: 5 sec 0 usec
Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID)
Scan timeout - try to get results
Received 234 bytes of scan results (1 BSSes)
Scan results: 1
Selecting BSS from priority group 0
0: 00:0f:66:d3:78:80 ssid='moreati.org.uk' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0
   skip - no WPA/RSN IE
No suitable AP found.
Setting scan request: 5 sec 0 usec
Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID)
Scan timeout - try to get results
Received 234 bytes of scan results (1 BSSes)
Scan results: 1
Selecting BSS from priority group 0
0: 00:0f:66:d3:78:80 ssid='moreati.org.uk' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0
   skip - no WPA/RSN IE
No suitable AP found.
Setting scan request: 5 sec 0 usec
Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID)
Signal 2 received - terminating
No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
wpa_driver_ipw_set_wpa: enabled=0
ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported
wpa_driver_ipw_set_drop_unencrypted: enabled=0
ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported
wpa_driver_ipw_set_countermeasures: enabled=0
ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported


root at martha:/home/alex # uname -a
Linux martha 2.6.10-5-386 #1 Tue Apr 5 12:12:40 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux


root at martha:/home/alex # cat /lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/build/.config | 
grep -e CONFIG_NET -e CONFIG_CRYPTO
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=m
CONFIG_NET_KEY=m
CONFIG_NET_IPIP=m
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE=m
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER=y
# CONFIG_NETFILTER_DEBUG is not set
# CONFIG_NET_DIVERT is not set
CONFIG_NET_SCHED=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_CLK_JIFFIES=y
# CONFIG_NET_SCH_CLK_GETTIMEOFDAY is not set
# CONFIG_NET_SCH_CLK_CPU is not set
CONFIG_NET_SCH_CBQ=m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_HTB=m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_HFSC=m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_ATM=m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_PRIO=m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_RED=m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_SFQ=m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_TEQL=m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_TBF=m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_GRED=m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_DSMARK=m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_NETEM=m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_INGRESS=m
CONFIG_NET_QOS=y
CONFIG_NET_ESTIMATOR=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_TCINDEX=m
CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE4=m
CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_FW=m
CONFIG_NET_CLS_U32=m
# CONFIG_NET_CLS_IND is not set
CONFIG_NET_CLS_RSVP=m
CONFIG_NET_CLS_RSVP6=m
# CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT is not set
CONFIG_NET_CLS_POLICE=y
CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN=m
CONFIG_NETPOLL=y
# CONFIG_NETPOLL_RX is not set
# CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP is not set
CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER=y
CONFIG_NETROM=m
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_NET_SB1000=m
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_RACAL=y
CONFIG_NET_TULIP=y
CONFIG_NET_ISA=y
CONFIG_NET_PCI=y
CONFIG_NET_POCKET=y
CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y
CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y
CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA=y
CONFIG_NET_FC=y
CONFIG_NETCONSOLE=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_HMAC=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_NULL=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD4=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA256=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA512=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_WP512=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DES=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_BLOWFISH=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SERPENT=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_586=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CAST5=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CAST6=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_TEA=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ARC4=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_KHAZAD=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ANUBIS=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEFLATE=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MICHAEL_MIC=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CRC32C=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_TEST=m

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