Fwd: Need help. Trying to get a new driver work.
Dan Williams
dcbw
Wed Oct 3 08:56:24 PDT 2007
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 20:57 +0530, Sriharsha Vedurmudi wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> I was not sure if you got my reply (am not sure if your firewall lets
> mails from unknown addresses) to your mail and so am posting it in the
> forum.
>
> Best wishes,
> Sriharsha.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sriharsha Vedurmudi <svedurumudi at gmail.com>
> Date: Oct 3, 2007 8:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Need help. Trying to get a new driver work.
> To: Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com>
>
>
> Hello Dan,
> A very _big_ thank you for taking time to help me out. I am so glad I
> got instant help (honestly I did not think anyone would reply so
> soon).
> Coming to the progress, I made the changes you suggested (changed the
> we_version_source from 9 to 19. and added enc_capa field populated
> with CAPA_WPA | CAPA_CIPHER_TKIP).
>
> The output from iwlist wlan0 scan looks good (see below):
> # iwlist wlan0 scan
> wlan0 Scan completed :
> Cell 01 - Address: 00:17:94:FE:54:D0
> ESSID:"CISCO_WPA"
> Mode:Master
> Frequency:2.437 GHz
> Encryption key:on
> Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
> 11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
> IE: WPA Version 1
> Group Cipher : TKIP
> Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
> Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Ok, this looks good.
What version of wpa_supplicant are you using? It may be that you are
using a wpa_supplicant that does only look for EVCUSTOM and not EVGENIE
in the scan results. Know exactly which version would help narrow that
down.
The fact that iwlist scan shows the right stuff here means that at least
something is working.
> The configuration file that I am using (/etc/wpa1.conf) is:
> network={
> ssid="CISCO_WPA"
> scan_ssid=1
> key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> psk="linuxap10"
> }
>
> And, when I give wpa_supplicant command, I see the following:
>
> # wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa1.conf -d
> Successfully initialized the event loop
> Initializing interface : 'wlan0'
> Conf : '/etc/wpa1.conf'
> Driver: 'default'
> Control Interface: 'N/A'
> Bridge: 'N/A'
>
> Configuration file '/etc/wpa1.conf' -> '/etc/wpa1.conf'
> Reading configuration file '/etc/wpa1.conf'
> Priority group 0
> id=0 ssid='CISCO_WPA'
> Initializing interface (2) 'wlan0'
> SIOCGIWRANGE:
> WE(compiled)=21
> WE(source)=19
> enc_capa=0x5
> capabilities:
> key_mgmt 0x5
> enc 0x7
> LinkMode: 1
> Operstate:5
> WEXT: Operstate:
> linkmode=1
> operstate=5
> Own MAC address: 00:11:22:33:44:55
> wpa_driver_wext_set_wpa
> wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=2 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=3 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_wext_set_countermeasures
> wpa_driver_wext_set_drop_unencrypted
> Setting scan request: 0 sec 100000 usec
> Added interface wlan0
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x1003 ([UP])
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8b06 len=8
> State: DISCONNECTED -> SCANNING
> Starting AP scan (specific SSID)
> Scan SSID - hexdump_ascii(len=9):
> 43 49 53 43 4f 5f 57 50 41 CISCO_WPA
> Trying to get current scan results first without requesting a new scan to speed
> up initial association
> Received 170 bytes of scan results (1 BSSes)
> Scan results: 1
> Selecting BSS from priority group 0
> Try to find WPA-enabled AP
> 0: 00:17:94:fe:54:d0 ssid='CISCO_WPA' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x11
> skip - no WPA/RSN IE
So this is the issue of course; wpa_supplicant isn't recognizing the IE
that your driver is returning.
Dan
> Try to find non-WPA AP
> 0: 00:17:94:fe:54:d0 ssid='CISCO_WPA' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x11
> skip - non-WPA network not allowed
> No suitable AP found.
> Setting scan request: 0 sec 0 usec
> Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID)
> Scan timeout - try to get results
> Received 170 bytes of scan results (1 BSSes)
> Scan results: 1
> Selecting BSS from priority group 0
> Try to find WPA-enabled AP
> 0: 00:17:94:fe:54:d0 ssid='CISCO_WPA' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x11
> skip - no WPA/RSN IE
> Try to find non-WPA AP
> 0: 00:17:94:fe:54:d0 ssid='CISCO_WPA' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x11
> skip - non-WPA network not allowed
> No suitable AP found.
> Setting scan request: 5 sec 0 usec
>
>
> Can anything be deciphered from the above dump?
>
> Best wishes,
> Sriharsha.
>
> On 10/3/07, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> > A few things. In your GIWRANGE handler, make sure you are doing the
> > following:
> >
> > 1) Setting range->we_version_source = 19 or higher; as long as you
> > provide WPA support you should advertise 19 or higher
> >
> > 2) Setting range->enc_capa correctly:
> >
> > range->enc_capa = IW_ENC_CAPA_WPA
> > | IW_ENC_CAPA_WPA2
> > | IW_ENC_CAPA_CIPHER_TKIP
> > | IW_ENC_CAPA_CIPHER_CCMP;
> >
> > (of course, if you don't support CCMP or RSN don't put those there)
> >
> > 3) In your GIWSCAN handler, are you adding the WPA IEs correctly? Don't
> > use EVCUSTOM; use EVGENIE like so:
> >
> > memset(&iwe, 0, sizeof(iwe));
> > if (bss->rsn_ie_len) {
> > char buf[MAX_WPA_IE_LEN];
> > memcpy(buf, bss->rsn_ie, bss->rsn_ie_len);
> > iwe.cmd = IWEVGENIE;
> > iwe.u.data.length = bss->rsn_ie_len;
> > start = iwe_stream_add_point(start, stop, &iwe, buf);
> > }
> >
> > Without wpa_supplicant, what does a scan result look like, from the
> > output of 'iwlist wlan0 scan' for an AP you know is broadcasting an IE?
> > iwlist will print out the IE information if your driver correctly
> > handles it.
> >
> > Also, thanks for using driver_wext.c; the more wireless drivers that use
> > WEXT the easier it is for Linux applications to work with your driver.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> > > Also surprising is that none of the printk's that I put in the ioctl
> > > handler functions are getting displayed.
> > > Since wpa_supplicant is not seeing any wpa ie, it is not issuing the
> > > associate command. I am unable to figure out whats going wrong. Can
> > > somebody help me with the correct sequence that is needed and also the
> > > correct way to pass the WPA IE to wpa_supplicant (through
> > > driver_wext.c, since Im using Linux 2.6.19-2 with W.E ver 21).
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Sriharsha.
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