[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#439896: WPA does not work on Dell Wireless 1390

[Kel Modderman]

reassign 439896 ndiswrapper-source
thanks

Hi Frank,

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:47:08 pm Frank Denissen wrote:
> I have a Dell Inspiron with Dell Wireless 1390. Access to my wireless
> router works fine without encryption or with WEP. Only WPA does not work
> under Linux (ndiswrapper + windows driver). WPA works fine under
> Windows, using the same version of the driver.

This is not a bug of wpasupplicant. See below for why.

> $ /sbin/wpa_supplicant -w -Dndiswrapper -iwlan0
> -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd
>
> Initializing interface 'wlan0' conf
> '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 'ndiswrapper'
<snip>
> SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=22 WE(source)=18 enc_capa=0xf
>   capabilities: key_mgmt 0xf enc 0xf
> WEXT: Operstate: linkmode=1, operstate=5
> Own MAC address: 00:19:7d:3a:17:eb
> Driver does not support WPA.

This is the punchline. ndiswrapper doesn't think your windows driver supports 
WPA, and reports that to wpa_supplicant. Maybe yry a different windows 
driver?

Personally, I find the native bcm43xx module to be quite okay, ymmv of course.

Thanks, Kel.