[driverloader] I can't use wpa/wep

[Cristiano De Michele]

On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 18:13, Marc Boucher wrote:
> Hi Cristiano,
> 
> driverloader-1.73 includes workarounds for these issues, and will be 
> released in a few hours.
> 
> There is also a new wpa_supplicant on the driverloader Downloads 
> section.
> 
> Please try again with both of these and let us know the results.
> 
> Thanks
> Marc
Hi Marc,
you are always very kind and I'm every day happier to have 
bought a driverloader's license ;-).
About wpa_supplicant I'm already using 0.2.3 (latest one)
and I'll try it out with 1.73 as soon as this release will be 
out.
Will hopefully 1.73 fix also the panic?
 
Many thanks
C.
 

> --
> Marc Boucher
> Linuxant inc.
> 
> On Jul 11, 2004, at 12:48 PM, Cristiano De Michele wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I almost completely solved my problems on WEP/WPA
> > with latest USrobotics driver/firmware for USR805410/USR808054 changing
> > some settings
> > (PrivacyMode, CCXSecurityType,dot11WEPStatus=1 fields)
> > in /etc/driverloader/config/XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX.
> > Now I can use WEP encryption and WPA-PSK.
> > Anyway concerning latter one when I launch wpa_supplicant
> > I get following output (though it works):
> >
> > Trying to associate with 00:c0:49:e0:61:72 (SSID='XXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
> > freq=2462 MHz)
> > EAPOL frame received in disassociated state - dropped
> > ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: Invalid argument
> > Failed to set encryption.
> > ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: Invalid argument
> > Failed to set encryption.
> > ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: Invalid argument
> > Failed to set encryption.
> > ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: Invalid argument
> > Failed to set encryption.
> > ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: Invalid argument
> > Failed to set encryption.
> > WPA: Key negotiation completed with XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
> >
> > the Failed to set encryption message is ok?
> > moreover if I kill wpa_supplicant daemon before unloading driverloader 
> > I
> > get a kernel panic (this is reproducible)...
> >
> > thanks Cristiano
> >
> >
> > Text of my previous mail:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I have a usr805410 pcmcia card and a usr808054 AP
> > and so far I used driverloader-1.72 + usr11g4.0q driver (for
> > pcmcia card) with 256 bit WEP encryption without any problem.
> > Recently USRobotics released usr11g6.0b14 driver and
> > firmware 1.44b12 for AP and I installed them to have WPA-PSK
> > security and 125Mbps.
> > Without any encryption driverloader works fine (I get
> > really almost 4Mb/s of transfer rate!) but unfortunately
> > I can't set WEP nor WPA because I get following errors:
> >
> > WEP:
> > doing
> >
> >> iwconfig eth1 key ...
> >
> > Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
> >     SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
> >
> > WPA:
> > doing
> > wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -ieth1
> >
> >  ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_PRISM2_PARAM]: Operation not supported
> > Failed to enable WPA in the driver.
> >
> > moreover trying to set WEP sometime my laptop froze (caps
> > lock starts blinking hence I guess it's a MCE exception)
> > and I had to reboot it.
> > This did not ever happen with old 4.0q driver.
> > I attached also the driverloaderdiag.txt file.
> >
> > many thanks,
> > Cristiano
> > -- 
> > Cristiano De Michele 	             E-mail: 
> > cristiano.demichele at phys.uniroma1.it
> > Department of Physics                Tel.  : +39064457131
> > University of Rome  "La Sapienza"    Fax   : +39064463158
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Cristiano De Michele 	             E-mail: cristiano.demichele at phys.uniroma1.it
Department of Physics                Tel.  : +39064457131
University of Rome  "La Sapienza"    Fax   : +39064463158
Piazzale Aldo Moro 2
I-00185 Roma - Italy 	
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