Re: mac80211 does not support WPA when used with wext

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 09:13 +0200, dragoran wrote:
> ok I tested it again with linvilles f7 test kernel (wireless-git + your 
> patches + iwlwifi).
> again nm detect the card as wpa and it finds the wpa enabled network. 
> But it fails to connect (does not even ask for a key). So I tryed to use 
> wpa_supplicant by hand ( with a config that works fine with ipw3945 ; 
> ieee80211) . Its seems not to be related to iwlwifi but to a ioctl that 
> mac80211 does not support (when used with wext).
> ----
> Own MAC address: 00:18:de:05:f7:9e
> 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
> ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
> WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - wpa_driver_wext_set_drop_unencrypted
> ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
> ----
> notice the *ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported* what is 
> SIOCSIWAUTH and how does it not being supproted affect wpa/wext support?

I'm not actually sure these are too much of a problem; some drivers
don't support all options and wpa_supplicant should be able to continue
without it.  Is there any log out put _after_ the pieces you show?

Dan