[ltp] WPA-PSK on FC 3, 4, 5

[François Fleuret]

Dear all,

<mario@schmut.com> wrote on 18 Mar 2006 21:25:20 MET:

> try https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WPAHowto
> it's not fedora but the configuration is the same.
> This is what i used back when the wireless wasn't on the dmz.

I have no problem dealing with WPA on my T41p with the 'old' madwifi
driver and the 2.6.13 kernel. Check my summary at

http://cvlab.epfl.ch/~fleuret/installations.html#wpa

However, it does not work with the 'new' driver (madwifi-ng) on
2.6.15. Precisely, if I load the modules:

>> Module                  Size  Used by
>> wlan_scan_sta          11136  1
>> wlan_xauth              1280  0
>> wlan_tkip              10752  0
>> ath_pci                74020  0
>> ath_rate_sample         9344  1 ath_pci
>> wlan                  149980  6 wlan_scan_sta,wlan_xauth,wlan_tkip,ath_p=
ci,ath_rate_sample
>> ath_hal               186832  3 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample

and run wpa_supplicant:

>> root@bean:~> wpa_supplicant -dd -Dmadwifi -iath0 -c test.conf

I get zillions of debugging lines, and among them:

>> State: SCANNING -> ASSOCIATING
>> wpa_driver_madwifi_associate
>> ioctl[IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETMLME]: Argument list too long
>> Association request to the driver failed
>> Setting authentication timeout: 10 sec 0 usec
>> EAPOL: External notification - EAP success=0
>> EAPOL: External notification - EAP fail=0
>> EAPOL: External notification - portControl=Auto
>> Wireless event: cmd=0x8b1a len=16
>> Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
>> Added BSSID 00:00:00:00:00:00 into blacklist
>> State: ASSOCIATING -> DISCONNECTED

Any idea ? What is that "Argument list too long" thingy ?

Cheers,

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François Fleuret                          http://cvlab.epfl.ch/~fleuret