[hostap driver] not authenticating when used w/ wpa-supplicant / network-manager

[Andrew Jorgensen]

On 8/15/07, Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:25:15AM -0600, Andrew Jorgensen wrote:
>
> > [ 4477.044000] wifi0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
> > [ 4477.044000] wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
> > [ 4477.056000] wlan1: Trying to join BSSID 00:0b:86:50:49:00
> > [ 4477.180000] wifi0: LinkStatus=6 (Association failed)
> > [ 4477.180000] wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
>
> This looks like a firmware issues or to be more exact, some kind of
> misunderstanding between the firmware and driver on how exactly the
> configuration should be set. In other words, if there is difference here
> in behavior between two different firmware versions for an open network,
> this would likely need to be worked around somehow in the driver.
>
> Is this issue showing up only with open network (i.e., does this work
> with WPA using both 1.7.1 and 1.8.0 firmware)?

The problem exists against WPA as well.  I haven't tried it against
WEP, but I will try to do that tonight if it would help.