Re: LOR wlan0 wi0

On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:56:13 -0700
Sam Leffler <sam_at_errno.com> wrote:

> 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

ifconfig wlan0 list caps
drivercaps=10701<STA,IBSS,PMGT,HOSTAP,MONITOR>
cryptocaps=1<WEP>

It doesn't look promising.

At least it wasn't my burned out brain :-)

Robert