wpa_supplicant && mandriva 2007

[robm]

its  2.6.15-27-386  so I am a candidate for candidate for a kernel upgrade.



Dan Williams wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 16:44 -0600, robm wrote:
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>>Both of these cards ario_cs and orinoco_cs are b only cards so  know 
>>they won't work with wpa. Can I get them to work with dynamic WEP and
>>PEAP?
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>Airo certainly will work with WPA on Windows.  It's not a function of
>being just a 802.11 B card, it's a function of the firmware.  You can do
>WPA on a B-only card just fine, you'll just never get anything over
>11Mb/s throughput.  It just happened that by the time WPA became
>popular, all the cards were B/G anyway.  But companies like Cisco that
>had installed bases in enterprises added WPA to their B-only cards with
>firmware updates.
>
>Matthieu Castet started to reverse-engineer the WPA-capable firmware
>interface for Airo cards that's in firmware versions 5.30.17 and later.
>I've pushed some patches for that upstream to the airo driver, namely
>detection of WPA-capable firmware, and reporting WPA Information
>Elements in scan results.  But the actual WPA operation is still
>unimplemented in the Linux driver.
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>Again, try a kernel 2.6.17 or later.  Messages from your logs, like:
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>WEXT auth param 7 value 0x0 - Failed to disable WPA in the driver.
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>indicate that you're not running the correct version of the kernel to
>get the airo driver that fixes most of the errors wpa_supplicant spews.
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>What kernel version _are_ you running?
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>Dan
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>>as per my wpa_supplicant.conf below
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>># IEEE 802.1X with dynamic WEP keys using EAP-PEAP/MSCHAPv2
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>>ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
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>>network={
>>        ssid="uni"
>>        key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
>>        eap=PEAP
>>        phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
>>        identity="username"
>>        password="password"
>>}
>>
>># opennet>network={
>>        ssid=""
>> key_mgmt=NONE
>>        priority=2
>>}
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>>Pavel Roskin wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 16:17 -0600, robm wrote:
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>>>>Ok I will try that , so would I still use
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>>>>-Dwext
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>>>>as well anyone using an orinoco_cs out there should  work for it too?
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>>>Orinoco driver doesn't support WPA yet.
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