Few doubts on SIOCSIWPMKSA and SIOCSIWAP

Tue Sep 16 20:58:00 PDT 2008

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 15:03 +0530, Raghavendra wrote:
> Hi,
>  
>  In below logs I could see below two lines.
>  
>  ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: Invalid argument
>  ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Network is unreachable
>  
> Here association with the AP is successfull, but what I want to know
> is, whether above two error messages are going to harm in any way, say
> in terms of performance or some other issue like connection
> failure..etc?

Hmm, are you perhaps using the Marvell 86xx vendor driver? :)  The first
one indicates that the driver doesn't support the PMK operations that
the supplicant is trying to do, and the second indicates that the driver
cannot find the AP that the supplicant is trying to associate with in
it's internal scan list.  Both are most likely driver issues.

Dan

> -Raghu
>  
> logs is as below...
>  
>  
> # ./wpa_supplicant -ieth0 -c./wpa_conf.conf -w -ddd
> Initializing interface 'eth0' conf './wpa_conf.conf' driver 'default'
> ctrl_interface 'N/A' bridge 'N/A'
> Configuration file './wpa_conf.conf' -> '/mnt/nfs/./wpa_conf.conf'
> Reading configuration file '/mnt/nfs/./wpa_conf.conf'
> ctrl_interface='/var/wpa_supplicant'
> ap_scan=2
> Line: 4 - start of a new network block
> ssid - hexdump_ascii(len=11):
>      78 6f 63 65 61 6e 5f 64 6e 65 74                  xocean_dnet
> key_mgmt: 0x4
> Priority group 0
>    id=0 ssid='xocean_dnet'
> Initializing interface (2) 'eth0'
> ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: Invalid argument
> SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=22 WE(source)=15 enc_capa=0x0
>   capabilities: key_mgmt 0x0 enc 0x3
> WEXT: Operstate: linkmode=1, operstate=5
> Own MAC address: 00:13:e0:9e:c4:2c
> 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 eth0
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x1003 ([UP])
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8b06 len=8
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x1003 ([UP])
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8c02 len=27
> WEXT: Custom wireless event: 'EVENT=DS_AWAKE'
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x1003 ([UP])
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8c02 len=27
> WEXT: Custom wireless event: 'EVENT=DS_AWAKE'
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x1003 ([UP])
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8c02 len=27
> WEXT: Custom wireless event: 'EVENT=DS_AWAKE'
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x1003 ([UP])
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8c02 len=27
> WEXT: Custom wireless event: 'EVENT=DS_AWAKE'
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x1003 ([UP])
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8c02 len=27
> WEXT: Custom wireless event: 'EVENT=DS_AWAKE'
> State: DISCONNECTED -> SCANNING
> Trying to associate with SSID 'xocean_dnet'
> Cancelling scan request
> WPA: clearing own WPA/RSN IE
> Automatic auth_alg selection: 0x1
> WPA: clearing AP WPA IE
> WPA: clearing AP RSN IE
> WPA: clearing own WPA/RSN IE
> No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
> wpa_driver_wext_set_drop_unencrypted
> State: SCANNING -> ASSOCIATING
> wpa_driver_wext_set_operstate: operstate 0->0 (DORMANT)
> WEXT: Operstate: linkmode=-1, operstate=5
> wpa_driver_wext_associate
> ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Network is unreachable
> Association request to the driver failed
> Setting authentication timeout: 5 sec 0 usec
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x1003 ([UP])
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8b06 len=8
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x1003 ([UP])
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8c02 len=27
> WEXT: Custom wireless event: 'EVENT=DS_AWAKE'
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x1003 ([UP])
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8c02 len=27
> WEXT: Custom wireless event: 'EVENT=DS_AWAKE'
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x1003 ([UP])
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8c02 len=27
> WEXT: Custom wireless event: 'EVENT=DS_AWAKE'
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11003 ([UP][LOWER_UP])
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8b15 len=20
> Wireless event: new AP: 00:1d:7e:0e:3f:54
> State: ASSOCIATING -> ASSOCIATED
> wpa_driver_wext_set_operstate: operstate 0->0 (DORMANT)
> WEXT: Operstate: linkmode=-1, operstate=5
> Associated to a new BSS: BSSID=00:1d:7e:0e:3f:54
> Network configuration found for the current AP
> WPA: clearing AP WPA IE
> WPA: clearing AP RSN IE
> WPA: clearing own WPA/RSN IE
> Associated with 00:1d:7e:0e:3f:54
> WPA: Association event - clear replay counter
> Cancelling authentication timeout
> State: ASSOCIATED -> COMPLETED
> CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:1d:7e:0e:3f:54 completed
> (auth) [id=0 id_str=]
> wpa_driver_wext_set_operstate: operstate 0->1 (UP)
> WEXT: Operstate: linkmode=-1, operstate=6
> Cancelling scan request
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=1 ifi_flags=0x11003 ([UP][LOWER_UP])
> WEXT: Operstate: linkmode=-1, operstate=6
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8b1a len=19
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=1 ifi_flags=0x11003 ([UP][LOWER_UP])
> WEXT: Operstate: linkmode=-1, operstate=6
> RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'eth0' added
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=1 ifi_flags=0x11043 ([UP][RUNNING][LOWER_UP])
> RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'eth0' added
> 
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