Re: orinoco_cs module and WPA not working

[Giacomo Comes <comes@naic.edu>]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 05:29:59PM +0000, Dave Kilroy wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Dave Kilroy <kilroyd@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Giacomo Comes <comes@naic.edu> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 05:46:54PM +0000, Dave Kilroy wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Giacomo Comes <comes@naic.edu> wrote:
> >>> > On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 09:52:15PM +0000, Dave Kilroy wrote:
> >>> >> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Giacomo Comes <comes@naic.edu> wrote:
> >>> >> wpa_supplicant log indicates it is continuously timing out the scans.
> >>> >> I don't know what is going on there.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> What you can try is to turn off wpa_supplicant roaming, and force
> >>> >> wpa_supplicant to connect to the AP with highest priority in your
> >>> >> config. Set ap_scan=2 in wpa_supplicant.conf, and set
> >>> >>
> >>> >> group=TKIP
> >>> >> pairwise=TKIP
> >>> >>
> >>> >> in the network block.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> This also prevents wpa_supplicant trying to connect to an AP using
> >>> >> BSSID, which the agere cards don't support.
> >>> >
> >>> > Running:
> >>> > wpa_supplicant -ieth1 -c wpa_supplicant.conf -f wpa_supplicant.log -dd
> >>> >
> >>> > wpa_supplicant.conf content:
> >>> > ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> >>> > ctrl_interface_group=0
> >>> > ap_scan=2
> >>> >
> >>> > network={
> >>> >        ssid="Comes"
> >>> >        psk="<password>"
> >>> >        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> >>> >        priority=5
> >>> >        proto=WPA
> >>> >
> >>> >        group=TKIP
> >>> >        pairwise=TKIP
> >>> > }
> >>>
> >>> OK, looks like you're using a newer wpa_supplicant that tries to use
> >>> IW_AUTH_MFP which orinoco doesn't know about. I can modify the driver
> >>> to silently pass these calls through, but it would be nice if
> >>> wpa_supplicant didn't fail because a driver didn't support a
> >>> particular option.
> >>>
> >>> I'll put together a patch to accept an IW_AUTH_MFP call set to NONE or
> >>> DISABLED, and fail on REQUIRED. In the meantime you could try use an
> >>> older wpa_supplicant. I think I was using 0.7.2 before, but I can't be
> >>> sure.
> >>
> >> wpa_supplicant version is 0.7.3. It's the one included in suse 11.3.
> >>
> >> About your patch, things are getting better.
> >>
> >> I have applied the patch and run wpa_supplicant with the configuration
> >> showed above. It works, the card associates with the AP.
> >> The succesful log is attached.
> >> After I removed from wpa_supplicant.conf the two lines:
> >> group=TKIP
> >> pairwise=TKIP
> >> the association still works.
> >>
> >> But after removing the line: ap_scan=2
> >> the association fails.
> >> The log is in the second attachment.
> >>
> >> Also I have included in the 3rd attachement wpa_supplicant.log when
> >> NetworkManager is used.
> 
> > The failure and NM case are the same. There is still a problem with
> > scanning. wpa_supplicant initiates a scan, and it appears to time out.
> > Without scan results wpa_supplicant is not able to select an
> > appropriate AP.
> >
> > Is the driver reporting any scanning issues in dmesg while
> > wpa_supplicant is running?

In dmesg there is:
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready

and on standard error:
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument

Giacomo