can't get WPA-PSK working with ipw2100 against linksys WRT54G

[Mike Campbell]

On 7/5/2005 3:41 PM, Stefan wrote:
> Mike Campbell wrote:
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>>On 7/5/2005 2:16 PM, Stefan wrote:
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>>>Mike Campbell wrote:
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>>>>On 7/5/2005 10:42 AM, Jouni Malinen wrote:
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>>>>>On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:30:53AM -0500, Mike Campbell wrote:
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>>>>>>I've tried about all I can think of and still can't get a WPA
>>>>>>connection to work on my Fedora FC4 box. I can get WEP working just
>>>>>>fine using the ipw2100 drivers but WPA always fails with the same
>>>>>>error. I have tried version 3.9 and 4.3 but no difference in the
>>>>>>outcome.
>>>>>>   
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Which version of the ipw2100 driver are you using? You might also
>>>>>consider testing wpa_supplicant v0.3.8 since ipw driver interface was
>>>>>changed and the ipw2100/2200 drivers may not be fully in sync with the
>>>>>driver interface. wpa_supplicant 0.3.9 changes this interface to a
>>>>>newer
>>>>>one, so if your driver is still using the old version, 0.3.8 may work
>>>>>better.
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>>>>>>When I run wpa_supplicant I see 2 possible problem areas:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I see the below message repeated 5-6 times each with a different
>>>>>>key_idx value but always the operation not supported and 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.
>>>>>>   
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>This is likely to be fine; wpa_supplicant just tries to make sure old
>>>>>keys are removed and the driver may report that it fails to remove
>>>>>keys
>>>>>that were not configured in the first place.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 
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>>>>>>Then later on when it scans the AP's it is not able to find a
>>>>>>suitable
>>>>>>one as I get:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Received 781 bytes of scan results (4 BSSes)
>>>>>>Scan results: 4
>>>>>>Selecting BSS from priority group 5
>>>>>>0: 00:13:10:32:af:21 ssid='MCAMPBELL' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0
>>>>>>caps=0x11
>>>>>>skip - no WPA/RSN IE
>>>>>>   
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>>>>>>For some reason the wpa_ie_len and rsn_ie_len is 0 for all found AP.
>>>>>>   
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>>>>>
>>>>>This is more serious issue. It looks like the driver does not report
>>>>>that the AP is using WPA. Unless you are already using the latest
>>>>>version of the driver, I would recommend updating it first.
>>>>> 
>>>>
>>>Did you read that on the ipw2100 site?
>>>
>>>http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/
>>>
>>>They are mentioning, that the latest 1.1.0 is not working with the
>>>latest wpa_supplicant and they offer a patch.
>>>Also there is a little shell skript on that page that is supposed to
>>>help you setup your box.
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>>>>> 
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>>>>
>>>>Sorry about replying in html format earlier. I've resent my previous
>>>>update in text only mode:
>>>>
>>>>I already had the latest ipw2100 files - driver is 1.1.0 and the
>>>>firmware is 0.55. I took your suggestion and went and downloaded and
>>>>compile the wpa_supplicant 0.38 and still have the same problem. No
>>>>difference in the output.
>>>>
>>>>The odd part is that all detected AP's have the 0 length for the wpa_ie
>>>>and rsn_ie. What do these values mean? What would be expected here?
>>>>
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>>Yeah I've been down that road. I've tried the patch and even the older
>>0.38 version. No luck anywhere.
>>
> 
> I'm not sure if the ipw2100 is reporting to syslog the capability of
> wpa, but if I were you I would check the log and also loaded modules, we
> had this before, that manually installed drivers weren't loaded because
> some older versions which came with the distro was loaded before.
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It appears that the driver is getting loaded. In the /var/log/messages 
output as well as dmesg output I can see where the card is detected and 
there are no errors. Also keep in mind that if I configure for WEP mode 
it works fine so the problem does not appear to be the ipw2100 driver 
loading.