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I have Mandriva 2006 free installed to IBM Thinkpad T41. This laptop comes pre-installed with PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI. When initially installed, 2.6.12-12mdk-i686-up-4GB kernel supports this card with ipw2100 module.

So, let OS do all the magic and ipw2100 gets loaded, interface configured as eth1 and open networks work like charm! But, in comes the WPA and things start to go awry :(

I have tried with the internal Wlan card and with another one, Linksys WPC54G that gets connected to PC-CARD slot. When working with the Linksys card, i use Ndiswrapper with Windows drivers. It gets configured as wlan0 and i can scan networks through it with the iwlist utility, too.

/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

Code:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant  # for wpa_cli support

eapol_version=1



network={

  ssid="mmwlan"

  psk="secret"

  key_mgmt=WPA-PSK

  pairwise= TKIP CCMP

  group=TKIP CCMP

  priority=2

  proto=WPA

}

Ipw2100 firmware was downloaded from the project page

Code:

[root@mandriva ~]# ll /lib/hotplug/firmware/

total 212

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 209190 Apr 25 20:03 ipw2100-1.3.fw

I load wpa_supplicant like this if using ipw2100

Code:

wpa_supplicant -i eth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D ipw -d

When excuted, wpa_supplicant prints this in continues loop:

Code:

[root@mandriva ~]# wpa_supplicant -i eth1 -D ipw -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d

Initializing interface 'eth1' conf '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 'ipw'

Configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' -> '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'

Reading configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'

ctrl_interface='/var/run/wpa_supplicant'

eapol_version=1

Priority group 0

  id=0 ssid='mmwlan'

Initializing interface (2) 'eth1'

EAPOL: SUPP_PAE entering state DISCONNECTED

EAPOL: KEY_RX entering state NO_KEY_RECEIVE

EAPOL: SUPP_BE entering state INITIALIZE

EAP: EAP entering state DISABLED

EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0

EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0

wpa_driver_ipw_init is called

ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: Operation not supported

SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=19 WE(source)=18 enc_capa=0xf

  capabilities: key_mgmt 0xf enc 0xf

Own MAC address: 00:0c:f1:19:a6:a9

wpa_driver_ipw_set_wpa: enabled=1

ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported

wpa_driver_ipw_set_key: alg=none key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0

ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported

Failed to set encryption.

wpa_driver_ipw_set_key: alg=none key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0

ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported

Failed to set encryption.

wpa_driver_ipw_set_key: alg=none key_idx=2 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0

ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported

Failed to set encryption.

wpa_driver_ipw_set_key: alg=none key_idx=3 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0

ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported

Failed to set encryption.

wpa_driver_ipw_set_countermeasures: enabled=0

ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported

wpa_driver_ipw_set_drop_unencrypted: enabled=1

ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported

Setting scan request: 0 sec 100000 usec

Wireless event: cmd=0x8b06 len=8

RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'eth1' added

RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'eth1' added

State: DISCONNECTED -> SCANNING

Starting AP scan (specific SSID)

Scan SSID - hexdump_ascii(len=6):

    6d 6d 77 6c 61 6e                                mmwlan

Scan timeout - try to get results

Received 445 bytes of scan results (2 BSSes)

Scan results: 2

Selecting BSS from priority group 0

0: 00:12:17:de:46:45 ssid='' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x1

  skip - no WPA/RSN IE

1: 00:90:4b:83:37:f1 ssid='' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x1

  skip - no WPA/RSN IE

No suitable AP found.

Setting scan request: 5 sec 0 usec

State: SCANNING -> DISCONNECTED

No keys have been configured - skip key clearing

EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0

EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0

wpa_driver_ipw_set_wpa: enabled=0

ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported

ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported

wpa_driver_ipw_set_drop_unencrypted: enabled=0

ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported

wpa_driver_ipw_set_countermeasures: enabled=0

ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported

No keys have been configured - skip key clearing

I doesn't matter whether i use WPC54G or internal Intel, they get, to my eye, identical output from wpa_supplicant. So it clearly has issues to deal, but i don't know where to start looking for :(

My router is Linksys WRT54G. WPA personal enabled, TKIP as algorithm. No MAC filter, SSID broadcast enabled.