Re: LOR wlan0 wi0

On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 10:04:20 -0700
Robert <traveling08_at_cox.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:27:07 -0700
> Sam Leffler <sam_at_errno.com> wrote:
> 
> > Robert wrote:
> > > On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:59:27 -0700
> > > Sam Leffler <sam_at_errno.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > >> Robert wrote:
> > >>> Greetings
> > >>>
> > >>> I have just upgraded a laptop on my network to current:


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> > 
> > I can confirm WEP is broken on wi in sta mode (and probably ap
> > mode).  I found at least two bugs but couldn't get it to work so am
> > going to leave it as an errata for 8.0.  But what's truly odd is
> > that WPA works fine despite a bug that should've caused it to not
> > work.  I knew WPA worked which is probably why I ignored WEP (noone
> > in their right mind  uses WEP when WPA is available :-)).
> > 
> > 	Sam
> Sam
> 
> I never claimed to be in my right mind. I haven't been myself since I
> quit smoking in 1986. :-)
> 
> I tried WPA yesterday before answering the previous email. I kept
> getting and error stating: unable to start wpa_supplicant.
> 
> I was thinking (always dangerous) that this old card maybe didn't have
> support for WPA. I'm probably wrong since I am not in my right mind. I
> was going to try again when the WG511T arrives. But now I will try
> again.
> 
> Thanks again
> 

Sam

Set up WPA again. The exact error is:

wpa_supplicant[1919]: Failed to initialize driver interface

I found this error message in wpa_supplicant.c at line 1772 as part of

"static int wpa_supplicant_init_iface2(struct wpa_supplicant *wpa_s)"

function.

I am just guessing but it seems this card is unable to use WPA. I will
wait for the delivery and try with that one.

Thanks for all of your help.

Robert