ham,programming question for wpa_supplicant driver

David Kjellquist dave
Wed Mar 2 15:44:09 PST 2005 

Holger;
	What card are you using?  I am trying to get an Enterasys Roamabout to
work with the 2.6 kernel.  I would be VERY interested in your hermes
driver when you get it working. I am not really a programmer but if I
can help some how - I'm willing.

			Dave

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 13:37 +0100, Holger Schurig wrote:
> I'm in the process of writing a driver_hermes.c for wpa_supplicant from 
> current CVS which does not depend on the (very awkward) sources for the 
> hermes wlags49 driver.
> 
> By doing this, I'm going from simple to complex. Now, a static wep key 
> seems simpley enought. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. Can wpa_supplicant 
> also "enter" the WEP keys for me?
> 
> 
> My wpa.conf looks like this:
> 
> ------------------------------------------
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> ctrl_interface_group=0
> eapol_version=1
> ap_scan=1
> fast_reauth=1
> 
> network={
>         ssid="MYWLAN2"
>         key_mgmt=NONE
>         wep_key0="mykey12345678"
>         wep_tx_keyidx=0
> }
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> Before starting wpa_supplicant, my interface is up, but no WEP key and no 
> association is there:
> 
> ------------------------------------------
> eth1      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:""  Nickname:"MNCI"
>           Frequency:2.457 GHz  Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44   Bit 
> Rate=11.5343 Mb/s
>           Tx-Power=off   Sensitivity:1/3
>           RTS thr:off
>           Encryption key:off
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality=0/92  Signal level=-102 dBm  Noise level=-102 dBm
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> Now I start wpa_supplicant:
> 
> ...
> Jan 02 01:54:59.760217: EAPOL: SUPP_PAE entering state DISCONNECTED
> Jan 02 01:54:59.760500: EAPOL: KEY_RX entering state NO_KEY_RECEIVE
> Jan 02 01:54:59.760576: EAPOL: SUPP_BE entering state INITIALIZE
> Jan 02 01:54:59.760697: EAP: EAP entering state DISABLED
> Jan 02 01:54:59.761303: EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0
> Jan 02 01:54:59.761684: EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0
> Jan 02 01:54:59.762046: wpa_driver_hermes_init: eth1
> Jan 02 01:54:59.819448: found Hermes 2 STA
> Jan 02 01:54:59.819969: Own MAC address: 00:10:c6:30:9b:fe
> Jan 02 01:54:59.820164: wpa_driver_hermes_set_wpa: enabled=1
> Jan 02 01:54:59.820414: wpa_driver_hermes_set_key: alg=none key_idx=0 
> set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> Jan 02 01:54:59.820704: wpa_driver_hermes_set_key: alg=none key_idx=1 
> set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> Jan 02 01:54:59.820913: wpa_driver_hermes_set_key: alg=none key_idx=2 
> set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> Jan 02 01:54:59.821114: wpa_driver_hermes_set_key: alg=none key_idx=3 
> set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> Jan 02 01:54:59.821307: wpa_driver_hermes_set_countermeasures: enabled=0
> Jan 02 01:54:59.824487: wpa_driver_hermes_set_drop_unencrypted: enabled=1
> Jan 02 01:54:59.825001: Setting scan request: 0 sec 100000 usec
> Jan 02 01:54:59.826228: Wireless event: cmd=0x8b06 len=8
> Jan 02 01:54:59.826511: unhandled
> Jan 02 01:54:59.930072: State: DISCONNECTED -> SCANNING
> Jan 02 01:54:59.930243: Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID)
> Jan 02 01:55:01.035435: Wireless event: cmd=0x8b19 len=12
> Jan 02 01:55:01.036959: Received 4096 bytes of scan results (2 BSSes)
> Jan 02 01:55:01.037212: Scan results: 2
> Jan 02 01:55:01.037316: Selecting BSS from priority group 0
> Jan 02 01:55:01.037429: 0: 00:12:7f:8b:62:30 ssid='MYWLAN2' wpa_ie_len=0 
> rsn_ie_len=0
> Jan 02 01:55:01.037529:    skip - no WPA/RSN IE
> Jan 02 01:55:01.037613: 1: 00:02:2d:a6:1b:ca ssid='MYWLAN1' wpa_ie_len=0 
> rsn_ie_len=0
> Jan 02 01:55:01.037701:    skip - no WPA/RSN IE
> Jan 02 01:55:01.037880:    selected non-WPA AP 00:12:7f:8b:62:30 
> ssid='MYWLAN2'
> 
>   Fine. Now it selects on of the access points, MYWLAN2 with a weird
>   frequency. Is 0 MHz correct?
> 
> Jan 02 01:55:01.038060: Trying to associate with 00:12:7f:8b:62:30 
> (SSID='MYWLAN' freq=0 MHz)
> Jan 02 01:55:01.038190: Cancelling scan request
> Jan 02 01:55:01.038289: Automatic auth_alg selection: 0x1
> Jan 02 01:55:01.038402: No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
> Jan 02 01:55:01.038514: wpa_driver_hermes_set_key: alg=WEP key_idx=0 
> set_tx=1 seq_len=0 key_len=13
> 
>    Looks like it enters the static WEP key ?!?
> 
> Jan 02 01:55:01.038641: wpa_driver_hermes_set_drop_unencrypted: enabled=1
> Jan 02 01:55:01.038915: State: SCANNING -> ASSOCIATING
> Jan 02 01:55:01.039077: wpa_driver_hermes_associate
> 
>    Here it tries to associate. But note: the my current driver (wlags49
>    7.18, 7.22 had compilation problems) doesn't support any *_set_bssid()
>    like IOCTL, i.e. not the SIOCGIWAP ioctl that driver_wext uses and
>    exports. Not sure if this is a problem.
> 
> Jan 02 01:55:01.039161: wpa_driver_hermes_set_wpa_ie
> Jan 02 01:55:01.049764: Setting authentication timeout: 5 sec 0 usec
> Jan 02 01:55:01.050040: EAPOL: External notification - 
> portControl=ForceAuthorized
> Jan 02 01:55:01.050668: Wireless event: cmd=0x8b04 len=12
> Jan 02 01:55:01.050869: unhandled
> 
>    The "unhandled" text is some debug message from me. Apart from this,
>    nothing from current CVS head has been changed. 8b04 is the IOCTL for
>    SIOCSIWFREQ "set channel/frequency (Hz)".
> 
> Jan 02 01:55:01.050983: Wireless event: cmd=0x8b1a len=19
> Jan 02 01:55:01.051075: unhandled
>    This is SIOCSIWESSID "set ESSID (network name)"
> 
> Jan 02 01:55:06.050134: Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
> 
>   But somehow the association got wrong?  I never asked or wanted
>   to associate with 00:00:00:00:00:00. Which event/function should
>   have been called in order to mark the association as "working"?
> 
> Jan 02 01:55:06.050531: State: ASSOCIATING -> DISCONNECTED
> Jan 02 01:55:06.050630: wpa_driver_hermes_set_key: alg=none key_idx=0 
> set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> Jan 02 01:55:06.050935: wpa_driver_hermes_set_key: alg=none key_idx=1 
> set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> Jan 02 01:55:06.051188: wpa_driver_hermes_set_key: alg=none key_idx=2 
> set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> Jan 02 01:55:06.051433: wpa_driver_hermes_set_key: alg=none key_idx=3 
> set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> Jan 02 01:55:06.051663: EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0
> Jan 02 01:55:06.052026: EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0
> 
>    Now the same log as above will be repeated.
> 
> 
> 
> While this happens, I cannot ping the device.
> 
> If I do, instead of starting wpa_supplicant, issue the command "iwconfig 
> eth1 mykey12345678" by hand, then everything works and I can ping my 
> device.
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David Kjellquist <dave at kjellquist.com>

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