Bug#403301: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#403301: wpasupplicant: segfaults with Cisco Aironet

[Kel Modderman]

severity 403301 important
thanks

Hi Matteo,

Lowered severity, this does not meet grave bug criteria, IMHO. The package 
works fine with supported devices and did not cause you any harm.

On Saturday 16 December 2006 11:50, Matteo Croce wrote:
> Package: wpasupplicant
> Version: 0.5.5-4
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> What's wrong here?
>
> [~]$ sudo wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth0
> -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not
> supported
> WEXT auth param 7 value 0x1 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
> WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - Failed to initialize control interface
> '/var/run/wpa_supplicant'. You may have another wpa_supplicant process
> already running or the file was left by an unclean termination of
> wpa_supplicant in which case you will need to manually remove this file
> before starting wpa_supplicant again.
>

Your device (its firmware) presumably does not support WPA.

During some researching of these cisco aironet devices, I found a nice table 
of WPA support here:
http://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/Computing/wirelessLinux.html

Its features are also well described here:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11b.html#Arlan802

Thanks, Kel.