From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.highlandsun.com ([70.87.222.79]:57189 "EHLO mail.highlandsun.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753376AbZEOTiR (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2009 15:38:17 -0400 Message-ID: <4A0DC4A9.8050505@highlandsun.com> Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 12:38:17 -0700 From: Howard Chu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: orinoco_cs and WPA-EAP? References: <4A065AFD.8000604@highlandsun.com> <4A0D3A83.4040809@highlandsun.com> <4A0DB0A5.9010301@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A0DB0A5.9010301@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Dave wrote: > Howard Chu wrote: >> Sigh, nothing's ever easy. After abandoning the CTX714 I mentioned in an >> earlier email, I find that the Thinkpad T42 I got from eBay came with some >> kind of Orinoco 802.11B mini-PCI card installed. Ubuntu Jaunty's 2.6.28 kernel >> loads up the orinoco_cs driver for this card. It appears that this driver only >> supports WPA-PSK, and I use WPA-EAP on my home wlan. Has anyone done any work >> on supporting WPA-EAP for this card? > > Michael Stokes, who is primarily responsible for debugging my initial > WPA efforts, reported getting WPA-EAP working with a Toshiba Wireless > WLAN v01.01 shortly after we got WPA-PSK working. However I haven't had > independent confirmation of this. > > The driver has evolved since then, so it's possible that we've broken > something. > > Note that the card only supports TKIP, so it won't work if the AP > doesn't offer it. At that time there seemed to be an issue with > wpa_supplicant attempting to use CCMP when offered by the AP, despite it > also offering TKIP - the workaround being to explicitly specify TKIP in > wpa_supplicant.conf. Thanks, that may have been the issue I was facing at first. My AP was configured for CCMP. I've now set it to TKIP and seem to be getting further. But now when I start wpa_supplicant I see a stream of "Information frame lost" messages in dmesg that pretty much never end (interspersed once in a while with ratelimit messages). I wonder if this laptop's mini-PCI slot is hosed or something. Also, one of the 2 antenna cable's connector came off, and I've tried to crimp the cable back into the connector but it may not be making full contact. The joys of buying used hardware... > Regards, > > Dave. > > PS. My contact with Michael has only been in private mail, so I've bcc'd > him (rather than cc'ing in case he want to keep his email off public > lists) in the hope that he can supply you with the necessary hints to > get it working. > -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/