wpa_supplicant hangs during assosiation

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 17:05 +0100, Christian K?lpin wrote:
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> Hello
> 
> Problem description: while starting the WLAN device, i am getting the
> "ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: Invalid argument " error message. The
> wpa_supplicant starting to scan for networks and try to connect to my
> accesspoint. This leads to an success but in 1 of 10 attemps. In 9
> trys i'am unable to connect... If iam connected successfully a wrong
> Mac-Adress will be submited but networking works well...
> 
> If trying to debug this but i was unable to solve the problem
> 
> the wpa_supplicant hangs during the assosiation. if i'am using wpa_cli
> i get "<2>Associated with 00:0f:b5:a5:09:8a" everytime.
> 
> this problem starts with upgrading the ndiswrapper from 1.47 to 1.50.
> But i'am unable to downgrade cause the 2.6.23 - kernel doesn't support
> this old ndiswrapper...

2.6.24 and possibly 2.6.23 have the p54 driver that supports the isl3886
driver; any chance you could try that instead of ndiswrapper and see if
the results are any better?

> the windows driver of the "Intersil Corporation ISL3886 [Prism
> Javelin/Prism Xbow]" (called PRISM00A) makes trouble from the first
> day i used them (randoumusly disconnects ...) but i dont get someone
> else so i am force to use them...
> 
> is there eny way to get the wpa_supplicant more "speakly" to get
> further information about what is going wrong

Can you post the command line you're using to invoke wpa_supplicant?
What wpa_supplicant driver are you using?  Are you adding "-ddd" to get
maximum debuginfo?

Dan

> any suggestions?
> 
> wpa_conf:
> 
> >ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> >ctrl_interface_group=0
> >eapol_version=1
> >ap_scan=1
> >fast_reauth=1
> >
> >network={
> >  ssid="Raptor_HomeLan"
> >  key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> >  pairwise=TKIP
> >  group=TKIP
> >  psk="<Key>"
> >  priority=1
> >}
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