Re: mac80211 does not support WPA when used with wext

[dragoran <drago01@gmail.com>]

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).
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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
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notice the *ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported* what is 
SIOCSIWAUTH and how does it not being supproted affect wpa/wext support?