[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#634935: ioctl error in wpasupplicant on kfreebsd/wheezy

[Zac Slade]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Robert Millan <rmh at debian.org> wrote:
> 2011/7/21 Zac Slade <krakrjak at gmail.com>:
>> I get the following error
>>  ioctl[SIOC80211, op=20, val=0, arg_len=7]: Invalid argument
>>
>> Upon disconnecting I get a slightly different error
>>  ioctl[SIOC80211, op=26, val=0, arg_len=]: Operation not supported
>
> I thought these were critical errors!  Anyway, it might help to figure
> out things like:
>
> - Do they happen with kfreebsd-9? (available in experimental)
> - Do they happen when you run wpa_supplicant in a FreeBSD chroot?  If
> not, do the ioctl failures show up in ktrace?
> - Do they happen when you run Debian userland on an upstream FreeBSD
> kernel? (this test is non-obvious, see FAQ for details on how to do
> it)

I thought they might be critical too, but after enough learning and
testing it just turned out to be cosmetic.  I will get a ktrace for
the current buggy stack and then try to gather more information using
the kfreebsd-9 kernel from experimental.

-- 
Zac Slade
krakrjak at gmail.com