[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#439896: WPA does not work on Dell Wireless 1390
Kel Modderman
kel at otaku42.de
Tue Aug 28 13:10:48 UTC 2007
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.
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