No connection with libertas and broadcom adapters: failure installing additional IEs for scanning

Sebastian Priebe sebastian.priebe at konplan.com
Wed Oct 30 04:44:50 PDT 2024


Since version 2.10 no connections with libertas cards are possible anymore.

Root cause is that the wpa_supplicant tries to install additional IEs for scanning while the driver does not support this.

Please use the patch from here:
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/wpa_supplicant/-/blob/main/0007-nl80211-add-extra-ies-only-if-allowed-by-driver.patch

Error from log:
<snip>
wlan0: Own MAC address: 00:19:88:5b:20:3c
wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=3 (wlan0) alg=0 addr=(nil) key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0 key_flag=0x10 link_id=-1
nl80211: DEL_KEY
  broadcast key
wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=3 (wlan0) alg=0 addr=(nil) key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0 key_flag=0x10 link_id=-1
nl80211: DEL_KEY
  broadcast key
wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=3 (wlan0) alg=0 addr=(nil) key_idx=2 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0 key_flag=0x10 link_id=-1
nl80211: DEL_KEY
  broadcast key
wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=3 (wlan0) alg=0 addr=(nil) key_idx=3 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0 key_flag=0x10 link_id=-1
nl80211: DEL_KEY
  broadcast key
wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=3 (wlan0) alg=0 addr=(nil) key_idx=4 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0 key_flag=0x10 link_id=-1
nl80211: DEL_KEY
  broadcast key
nl80211: set_key failed; err=-22 Invalid argument
wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=3 (wlan0) alg=0 addr=(nil) key_idx=5 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0 key_flag=0x10 link_id=-1
nl80211: DEL_KEY
  broadcast key
nl80211: set_key failed; err=-22 Invalid argument
wlan0: RSN: flushing PMKID list in the driver
nl80211: Flush PMKIDs
wlan0: Setting scan request: 0.100000 sec
ENGINE: Loading builtin engines
ENGINE: Loading builtin engines
EAPOL: SUPP_PAE entering state DISCONNECTED
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
nl80211: Skip set_supp_port(unauthorized) while not associated
EAPOL: KEY_RX entering state NO_KEY_RECEIVE
EAPOL: SUPP_BE entering state INITIALIZE
EAP: EAP entering state DISABLED
ctrl_interface_group=0
wlan0: Added interface wlan0
wlan0: State: DISCONNECTED -> DISCONNECTED
<snip>

Thanks
Sebastian



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