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

[Reinhard Tartler]

Matteo Croce <rootkit85 at yahoo.it> writes:

> From: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18
>
>     [PATCH] wireless/airo: minimal WPA awareness
>     
>     Running Linux 2.6.17-rc3-mm1 which has this patch included I get this
>     interesting message:
>     airo(eth0): WPA unsupported (only firmware versions 5.30.17 and greater
>     support WPA.  Detected 5.30.17)
>     [...]
>     [PATCH] wireless/airo: minimal WPA awareness
>     
>     airo cards with firmware versions of 5.30.17 and higher support WPA.
>     This patch recognizes WPA-capable firmware versions and adds support for
>     retrieving the WPA and RSN information elements from the card's scan
>     results.  The JOB and FLAG fields are now independent, since there was
>     no space left in the FLAG field for FLAG_WPA_CAPABLE.
>
> So my driver really doesn't supports WPA? is just WPA aware?

You already gave the answer:

Matteo Croce <rootkit85 at yahoo.it> writes:
> 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

wpa_supplicant tries to set wpa parameters, but the drivers says:
"Operation not supported"

> [~]$ dmesg |fgrep eth0
> airo(eth0): cmd:111 status:7f11 rsp0:2 rsp1:0 rsp2:0
> airo(eth0): Doing fast bap_reads
> airo(eth0): WPA is supported.
> airo(eth0): MAC enabled 0:d:29:0:ca:fe
> airo(eth0): Bad size 8192

No idea what this is about. I'd suggest that you ask upstream about
that.

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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