ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument

[Vladimir Botka]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:21:40 -0700
Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 17:56 +0200, Vladimir Botka wrote:
> > in openSUSE 11.3, kernel 2.6.34, wpa_supplicant reports
> > "ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]" [3] when used with ipw2200
> > [2] driver and WEP. For the record I've opened bug on [1]. Disabling
> > 802.11w didn't help. Any idea ?
> > 
> > [1] http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2236
> 
> It depends on what parameter wpa_supplicant is trying to set, and what
> options are sent with that parameter.  If there's a chance you can
> change and rebuild your wpa_supplicant, we can figure out what that
> is. What configuration are you using?  Can you include the "-dddt"
> logs from the supplicant so that we can see what the supplicant is
> trying to do?
> 

I'm using configuration [1]. Please find attached wpa_supplicant.log.
Process was started from the command-line [2]. I'm not able
to find reason why the "Association request " failed [3]. Also the AP
MAC before disassociation [4] looks bad. The same configuration works
with ath5k.

Thank you,

	-vlado
	Vladimir Botka

[1]
# cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
update_config=1

network={
        ssid="vlado-test-ap1"
        wep_key0=097d8252a2434dec1bbc6a5125
        wep_tx_keyidx=0
        key_mgmt=NONE
        auth_alg=SHARED
}

[2]
 # wpa_supplicant -ieth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dwext -f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log -dddt 
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument

[3]
1280255277.855591: State: SCANNING -> ASSOCIATING
1280255277.855613: wpa_driver_wext_set_operstate: operstate 0->0 (DORMANT)
1280255277.855621: netlink: Operstate: linkmode=-1, operstate=5
1280255277.855637: wpa_driver_wext_associate
1280255277.855653: wpa_driver_wext_set_drop_unencrypted
1280255277.855668: wpa_driver_wext_set_psk
1280255277.856079: Association request to the driver failed

[4]
1280255278.399536: Wireless event: cmd=0x8b15 len=20
1280255278.399547: Wireless event: new AP: 00:00:00:00:00:00
1280255278.399560: Disassociation notification
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