can't associate using wpa_supplicant, sharp zaurus and Sandisk wifi card
Harondel J. Sibble
hostap-wpa-supplicant
Thu Sep 21 01:17:57 PDT 2006
PART 1
I have 2 Zauri, both SL-5500's, one's running OpenZaurus 3.5.3 and the
other 3.5.4. The AP is a Linksys WRT-54GS (ver 1.0) running DD-WRT
firmware V23. There is a second WRT-54GS running same version of DD-WRT in
client bridged mode for my MediaMVP in the living room streaming from my
mythtv backend. This works well.
Using WPA-PSK with a really long key, around 41 random characters, and AES
as the crypto algo, SSID broadcast is disabled and mac address filtering
is enabled, all my wifi nic's mac addresses are entered into the router's
allowed list.
My laptop running XPPro with an SMC pccard works fine with the AP. I'm
pretty sure it was working fine at my old house early this year, I don't
remember what changes I made at the new house, however the AP was not
being used with Mythtv at the old place as I had a hardwired line for
that.
The results I get for both Zauri are identical, I am using WPA supplicant
and the wifi nic is a prism2.5 based card, the Sandisk Connect Plus 128. I
have 2 of these and they both exhibit the same issue.
Software
OZ 3.5.4 machine
-wpa-supplicant - 0.4.8-r8
-prism3-firmware - 1.8.4-r0 -
-prism3-support - 1.0.0-r2 -
-hostap-conf - 1.0-r4 -
-hostap-modules-2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix - 0.4.7-r4 -
-hostap-modules-cs-2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix - 0.4.7-r4 -
-hostap-modules-pci-2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix - 0.4.7-r4 -
-hostap-utils - 0.4.7-r3 -
OZ 3.5.3 machine
I think I manually compiled and installed wpa-supplicant on this machine
as it doesn't show up when I run "ipkg list_installed | grep wpa", ditto
for the prism firmware stuff, at least that was how I set it up
originally, in trying to get wpa-gui working with the unit, it was
recommend on the OESF forums by one of the OZ team members that I change
my sources to use the 3.5.4 feed instead of the old 3.5.3 ones which were
no longer supported, so now I have
-prism3-firmware - 1.8.3-r2 -
-prism3-support - 1.0.0-r0 - meta-package for prism3 support through
ifupdown and hostap_fw_load -hostap-modules - 0.3.7-r0 -
-hostap-modules-cs - 0.3.7-r0 - -hostap-utils - 0.3.7-r0 -
So process is insert Sandisk card, it gets detected and it's light start
flashing indicating wifi access, using the opie network tool, I can scan
for AP's and see what's around, or using Wellenreiter or kismet, I can do
the same thing. So far so good. Next I run my wpa startup script which
consists of
#! /bin/sh
wpa_supplicant -ddd -B -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
The conf file has
network={
ssid="myssid"
scan_ssid=1
psk="mylongpassphrase"
priority=1
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
# group=CCMP TKIP
}
After running my startup script, I go into wpa_cli and run "status", it
says associating and shortly thereafter, I see the following repeated over
and over again
> <2>Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
<2>Trying to associate with 00:0f:66:44:22:28 (SSID='myssid' freq=2412
MHz) <2>Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out. <2>Trying to
associate with 00:0f:66:44:22:28 (SSID='myssid' freq=2412 MHz)
I tried changing to a really simple passphrase last night of "hantavirus"
and at some point wpa_cli showed associated, however I have not been able
replicate that again. Even though it showed associated, I was not able to
get an ip address from the dhcp server on the lan. I vaguely remember
seeing a line in the ps listing regarding udhcpc (or maybe it was
dhcp_client) and it looked like it was having a problem of some kind.
Each time I changed the psk on the AP, I'd reboot it just to be sure
before trying to connect.
The last time I looked at this before putting 3.5.4 on the second Z this
past weekend, I did a fair bit of googling and found others with the same
issue, but no resolutions that worked for me. I also remember trying
different channels too, currently the router is set to AUTO for channel
selection. I did a little googling this weekend, but found nothing of
consequence.
PART 2
Well, just to make sure it's not an issue with the linksys routers, I
thought I'd try the same process with a different router, a MS MN-700
still running the WinCE firmware. I plan to upgrade it to the Asus linux
firmware or DD-WRT one day when I get around to making a JTAG cable. as an
aside, anyone got one for sale?
Anyhow, I setup the router with the "hantavirus" psk and the 256bit
WPA-PSK security, mac address filtering not enabled. Added the same
settings in the wpa_supplicant.conf file and got the same results when
running wpa_supplicant, here's what I see
wpa_supplicant -ddd -B -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
Initializing interface 'wlan0' conf '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver
'default' ctrl_interface 'N/A' 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=1 fast_reauth=1 Line: 272 - start of a new network
block ssid - hexdump_ascii(len=9):
4d 53 48 4f 4d 45 31 32 33 MSHOME123
scan_ssid=1 (0x1)
PSK (ASCII passphrase) - hexdump_ascii(len=10): [REMOVED]
priority=1 (0x1)
key_mgmt: 0x2
pairwise: 0x18
PSK (from passphrase) - hexdump(len=32): [REMOVED]
Priority group 1
id=0 ssid='MSHOME123'
Initializing interface (2) 'wlan0'
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
SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=19 WE(source)=18 enc_capa=0xf
capabilities: key_mgmt 0xf enc 0xf
Added alternative ifindex 13 (wifi0) for wireless events
Added alternative ifindex 13 (wifi0) for wireless events
Own MAC address: 00:60:b3:6c:ba:8b
wpa_driver_hostap_set_wpa: enabled=1
wpa_driver_hostap_set_key: alg=none key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_hostap_set_key: alg=none key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_hostap_set_key: alg=none key_idx=2 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_hostap_set_key: alg=none key_idx=3 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_hostap_set_countermeasures: enabled=0
wpa_driver_hostap_set_drop_unencrypted: enabled=1 Setting scan request: 0
sec 100000 usec Added interface wlan0
wpa_cli, shows same errors
Interactive mode
> status
<2>Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
wpa_state=SCANNING
> <2>Trying to associate with 00:50:f2:00:00:03 (SSID='MSHOME123'
> freq=2412 MHz)
<2>Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
<2>Trying to associate with 00:50:f2:00:00:03 (SSID='MSHOME123' freq=2412
MHz) <2>Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out. <2>Trying to
associate with 00:50:f2:00:00:03 (SSID='MSHOME123' freq=2412 MHz)
<2>Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out. <2>Trying to associate
with 00:50:f2:00:00:03 (SSID='MSHOME123' freq=2412 MHz) <2>Authentication
with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out. <2>Trying to associate with
00:50:f2:00:00:03 (SSID='MSHOME123' freq=2412 MHz) root at collie:~# killall
wpa_supplicant
PART 3
Hmm, one more data point, just setting up a Fortigate Wifi60a for a client
and thought what the heck, I'll give that a try and lo and behold it
works!
wpa_cli
Selected interface 'wlan0'
Interactive mode
> status
bssid=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
ssid=mynewssid
pairwise_cipher=TKIP
group_cipher=TKIP
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_state=COMPLETED
ip_address=10.88.193.100
Okay, so at least I know that this unit will work with WPA, maybe it just
doesn't like the use of AES encryption, will need to do some more
experimentation.
Any suggestions?
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Harondel J. Sibble
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