Re: LOR wlan0 wi0

Robert wrote:
> 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:
> 
> 
> <clip>
> 
>>> 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.

You're probably correct.

ifconfig wlan0 list caps

will tell you for sure.  I think I dropped this issue--that
wpa_supplicant should check device capabilities when it hits an error to
see if the device is even capable.

I've got an MA401 but didn't find it.  I tested with a different card
the does support wpa.

	Sam