Re: mac80211 and SIOCSIWAUTH

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 23:46 +0500, =D0=92=D0=B5=D1=82=D0=BE=D1=88=D0=BA=
=D0=B8=D0=BD =D0=9D=D0=B8=D0=BA=D0=B8=D1=82=D0=B0 wrote:
> Hi, I'm a user of Lenovo R61 laptop with Intel 3945 wireless card. I=20
> have Gentoo and would like to use the iwlwifi + wpa_supplicant driver=
,=20
> but I can't because Wi-Fi installed in our office needs WPA2=20
> authentication and I can't connect to it. There no problems using ipw=
3945d.
> #wpa_supplicant config
> ap_scan=3D2
> network=3D{
>          ssid=3D"point1"
>          key_mgmt=3DWPA-EAP
>          scan_ssid=3D1
>          identity=3D"nvetoshkin"
>          proto=3DWPA2
>          eap=3DTLS
>          ca_cert=3D"/home/nekto/certificate.pem"
>          private_key=3D"/home/nekto/nvetoshkin.p12"
>          private_key_passwd=3D"nvetoshkin"
> }
> ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported - this error always appea=
rs=20
> in wpa_supplicant output. I digged a bit in source code and found out=
=20
> that it is mac80211 subsystem who returns ENOTSUP.
> Is it really the cause of my problems or am I just confused?

There's a number of SIOCSIWAUTH sub-options, and not all are necessary,
and not all are supported by every driver.  That's normal.  Ignore the
wpa_supplicant message.

Dan


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