Failed to get WPA/RSN information element - update

Wed Jul 6 09:04:59 PDT 2005

Friends,

Just to followup on the below problem I posted last week, everything
started to work fine when I compiled the madwifi-BSD driver of 02-Jun-2005
on the AP (using ATH5212/CM9).

I can right now authenticate against Freeradius & TKIP w/ PEAP, EAP-TLS on
Win-XP SP2.  CCMP testing follows...

Thanks to all
Toshiki

> Just to make sure that the problem originally reported at
> http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2005-July/010790.html is not
> because of some mysterious doing of Win-XP supplicant, I compiled and
> installed wpa_supplicant on a Linux 2.6.9 laptop and tried to authenticate
> with the *802.11a/b/g Madwifi AP* with the same PCMCIA (that didn't work
> on Win-XP).
>
> wpa_supplicant compiled and ran fine, but seems to be doing nothing much
> more.  Here's some output...
>
> zagreb:~# iwconfig ath0
> ath0      IEEE 802.11a  ESSID:"apsol54"
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:5.22 GHz  Access Point:
> 00:0B:6B:34:37:0F
>           Bit Rate:36 Mb/s   Tx-Power:50 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
>           Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>           Encryption key:off
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality=0/94  Signal level=-95 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm Rx
> invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0 Tx
> excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
> ... which may be saying that the madwifi driver and hostapd didn't yet
> associate to each other.  Am I correct in this conclusion?
>
> I had MADWIFI enabled in .config file for compiling wpa_supplicant.
>
> # Driver interface for madwifi driver
> CONFIG_DRIVER_MADWIFI=y
> # Change include directories to match with the local setup
> # CFLAGS += -I/usr/src/madwifi/wpa
>
> The CFLAGS... is commented out because I don't have such a directory
> (./wpa) in my madwifi source directory.
>
> Some of the output on screen on running /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant is:
>
> zagreb:~# wpa_supplicant -i ath0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D madwifi -d
> ----
> Initializing interface 'ath0' conf '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver
> 'madwifi'
> 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=2
> fast_reauth=0
> Priority group 10
>    id=0 ssid='apsol54'
> Initializing interface (2) 'ath0'
> 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
> Own MAC address: 00:0b:6b:20:0b:13
> wpa_driver_madwifi_del_key: keyidx=0
> wpa_driver_madwifi_del_key: keyidx=1
> wpa_driver_madwifi_del_key: keyidx=2
> wpa_driver_madwifi_del_key: keyidx=3
> wpa_driver_madwifi_set_countermeasures: enabled=0
> wpa_driver_madwifi_set_drop_unencrypted: enabled=1
> Setting scan request: 0 sec 100000 usec
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8b06 len=8
> RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'ath0' added
> RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'ath0' added
> Trying to associate with SSID 'apsol54'
> Cancelling scan request
> Automatic auth_alg selection: 0x1
> WPA: Set cipher suites based on configuration
> WPA: Selected cipher suites: group 30 pairwise 24 key_mgmt 1
> WPA: using GTK CCMP
> WPA: using PTK CCMP
> WPA: using KEY_MGMT 802.1X
> WPA: Own WPA IE - hexdump(len=22): 30 14 01 00 00 0f ac 04 01 00 00 0f ac
> 04 01 00 00 0f ac 01 00 00
> No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
> wpa_driver_madwifi_set_drop_unencrypted: enabled=1
> wpa_driver_madwifi_associate
> Setting authentication timeout: 5 sec 0 usec
> EAPOL: External notification - portControl=Auto
> Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
> BSSID 00:00:00:00:00:00 blacklist count incremented to 6
> 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
> Trying to associate with SSID 'apsol54'
> Cancelling scan request
> Automatic auth_alg selection: 0x1
> WPA: Set cipher suites based on configuration
> WPA: Selected cipher suites: group 30 pairwise 24 key_mgmt 1
> WPA: using GTK CCMP
> WPA: using PTK CCMP
> WPA: using KEY_MGMT 802.1X
> WPA: Own WPA IE - hexdump(len=22): 30 14 01 00 00 0f ac 04 01 00 00 0f ac
> 04 01 00 00 0f ac 01 00 00
> No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
> wpa_driver_madwifi_set_drop_unencrypted: enabled=1
> wpa_driver_madwifi_associate
> Setting authentication timeout: 5 sec 0 usec
> EAPOL: External notification - portControl=Auto
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8b1a len=21
> ----
>
> Sorry for the verbose output, but thought I'd provide all the data that
> maybe useful.
>
> What am I doing wrong.  What else should I try?
>
> Thanks
> Toshiki Kaifu
>
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>
>> Friends,
>>
>> Having used hostapd with hostap-driver for a long and happy time, I have
> been trying to get hostapd be the 802.11i/WPA authenticator for my
> *802.11a/b/g Madwifi* AP (Linux 2.4.26).
>>
>> Setup is:
>>
>> Access Point:
>> * AR5212 based CM9 a/b/g miniPCI
>>   http://www.confero24.com/product_info.php?cPath=57&products_id=139
>> * Madwifi driver (snapshot of 20/06/2005)
>> * hostapd v0.3.7 (on Linux 2.4.26) - works perfect with hostap-driver
>>
>> Client:
>> * AR5210 based b/g PCMCIA
>>   http://www.wneweb.com.tw/wireless/products/cb9.htm
>> * Win-XP SP2
>> * Driver from Atheros (apparently version 3.3.0.156)
>>
>> Basically the hostapd driver seems to startup cleanly, except for the
> mysterious
>>>> l2_packet_receive - recv: Network is down, which apparently can be
>> ignored (according to a past list message by Jouni)
>>
>> However I can't get the above PCMCIA to authenticate w/ the hostapd AP
> due to folln error:
>>
>> ----
>> Deauthenticate all stations
>> l2_packet_receive - recv: Network is down
>> Wireless event: cmd=0x8b19 len=12
>> Wireless event: cmd=0x8c03 len=20
>> ath0: STA 00:0b:6b:20:0b:13 IEEE 802.11: associated
>>   New STA
>> *ioctl[unknown???]: Invalid argument*
>> *Failed to get WPA/RSN information element.*
>> Wireless event: cmd=0x8c03 len=20
>> ----
>>
>> Apparently the right WPA/RSN header is not being sent by the PCMCIA or
> received by the Madwifi+hostapd.  This is with AP locked with iwpriv in
> (mode=1) 11a/5GHz
>>
>> Interestingly this same PCMCIA card works perfect with hostap + hostapd
> setup under EAP-TLS, PEAP w/ TKIP.  11b/2.4GHz
>>
>> Would anyone have a guess on why the *Failed to get WPA/RSN information
> element* error?
>>
>> Why does the Win-XP supplicant work with hostap+hostapd, but flunks on
> madwifi+hostapd.
>>
>> Thanks much for all your input.
>>
>> Tosh Kaifu

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