wpa supplicant and madwifi wpa branch - bad file descriptor

Thomas Hänig haenig
Wed Jun 30 00:39:39 PDT 2004


Hello all,
when trying to use the most recent CVS of madwifi wpa branch and 
wpa_supplicant (both of 2004-06-30) I am no longer able to connect.

In version 0.2.3 I had to issue a "iwconfig ath0 ESSID=top_secret" to connect 
to my AP, but now all is broken:

thomas-nbk:~ # wpa_supplicant -i ath0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd
Configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' -> '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
Reading configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
ctrl_interface='/var/run/wpa_supplicant'
eapol_version=1
Line: 130 - start of a new network block
SSID - hexdump_ascii(len=10):
     74 6f 70 5f 73 65 63 72 65 74                     top_secret      
PSK - hexdump(len=32): ......
wpa_driver_madwifi_set_wpa: enabled=1
wpa_driver_madwifi_del_key: keyidx=0
wpa_driver_madwifi_del_key: keyidx=1
wpa_driver_madwifi_del_key: keyidx=2
wpa_driver_madwifi_del_key: keyidx=3
wpa_driver_madwifi_set_countermeasures: enabled=0
wpa_driver_madwifi_set_drop_unencrypted: enabled=1
Setting scan request: 0 sec 100000 usec
l2_packet_receive - recv: Network is down
Starting AP scan (specific SSID)
Scan SSID - hexdump_ascii(len=10):
     74 6f 70 5f 73 65 63 72 65 74                     top_secret      
ioctl[SIOCSIWESSID]: Bad file descriptor
Failed to initiate AP scan.


Thomas





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