Problem with WPA-PSK and kernel 2.6.13-rc6 with ipw2200

[Pedro Ramalhais]

Fran?ois Valenduc wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I wanted to take some advance and test the new 2.6.13 kernel (with RC6). I found in the mailing list archive that I had to patch the sources in order to compile the driver with software suspend. However, I don't manage to use WPA-PSK with my ipw2200 wifi card (which works fine with
> 2.6.12). You wil find in the attached file an extract of the logs generated by WPA supplicant. I use the packaged version of Debian Sid of wpa supplicant (0.4.2). It seems that the acces point is found but that association doesn't succeed. I had that I use TKIP as encryption method. I just wanted to know if this is a known bug of the driver or of wpasupplicant and we may hpe that it will be solved when the final release of the 2.6.13 will be released. 
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> Fran?ois Valenduc
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> State: SCANNING -> ASSOCIATING
> ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported
> ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported
> Setting authentication timeout: 5 sec 0 usec
> EAPOL: External notification - EAP success=0
> EAPOL: External notification - EAP fail=0
> EAPOL: External notification - portControl=Auto
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8b1a len=21
> Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
> BSSID 00:00:00:00:00:00 blacklist count incremented to 5
> State: ASSOCIATING -> DISCONNECTED
> No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
> EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0
> EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0
> Setting scan request: 0 sec 0 usec
> State: DISCONNECTED -> SCANNING
> Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID)
> Scan timeout - try to get results
> Received 273 bytes of scan results (1 BSSes)
> Scan results: 1
> Selecting BSS from priority group 2
> 0: 00:11:50:4e:0a:4e ssid='cheznous' wpa_ie_len=24 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x11
>    selected
> Trying to associate with 00:11:50:4e:0a:4e (SSID='cheznous' freq=0 MHz)
> Cancelling scan request
> Automatic auth_alg selection: 0x1
> wpa_driver_ipw_set_auth_alg: auth_alg=0x1
> ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported
> WPA: using IEEE 802.11i/D3.0
> WPA: Selected cipher suites: group 8 pairwise 8 key_mgmt 2
> WPA: using GTK TKIP
> WPA: using PTK TKIP
> WPA: using KEY_MGMT WPA-PSK
> WPA: Own WPA IE - hexdump(len=24): dd 16 00 50 f2 01 01 00 00 50 f2 02 01 00 0050 f2 02 01 00 00 50 f2 02
> No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
> wpa_driver_ipw_set_drop_unencrypted: enabled=1
> ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported
> 
> 
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It looks like your build of the ipw2200 doesn't suport that WPA
interface. There can be two reasons:
1 -  Your kernel's .config has CONFIG_IPW* and CONFIG_IEEE80211*
definitions which you must remove;
and/or
2 - Your kernel has support for wireless extensions version 18, which
probably disables the old WPA interface (wpa_supplicant's driver_ipw)
and enables the kernel WPA interface (wpa_supplicant's driver_wext).

Check [1] and if it still doesn't work, then check [2] by trying to use
wpa_supplicant with -Dwext instead of -Dipw.

-- 
Pedro Ramalhais