Failed to enable wpa in the driver

vladoportos · 01-15-2005, 05:54 PM

Hi i have strange problem with mi wifi card MIM2000 on my JoyBook 5000.
I use Mandrake 10.1 witha all updates, I also install ndiswrapper but that one witch was on cd as rpm.. It running ok with my card because i can scan for others SSID an if i run

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ndiswrapper -l
Instaled ndis drivers:
w70n51 hardware present
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I also installed latest wpa_supplicant and install run without problem.

BUT when i try

wpa_supplicant -Dndiswrapper -iwlan0 -c/home/vladoportos/wpa_supplicant.conf

it will give me this:

Failed to enable WPA in the driver
Failed to disable WPA in the driver

What can i do, what's wrong... i know that that driver support wpa because its work under xp...

Melsync · 09-09-2006, 06:10 AM

This a very old thread in pinguin terms, but since I struggled to solve the same problem, this might help others to try my solution.

This is a Fedora Core 4 with a ndiswrapper and wireless adapter working perfectly with wep. However wpa_supplicant gave this error: 'Driver does not support WPA'. I knew the driver did support WPA because it worked when my laptop was booted in Windoze.

1. keep /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf to the bare minimum because the defaults are very generic for all situations

Code:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel

network={
        ssid="yournetwork"
        psk="yourpassword"
}

2. use the driver option 'wext' instead of 'ndiswrapper'

Quote:

sudo /usr/local/sbin/wpa_supplicant -ieth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dwext -w

3. fire your network interface

Quote:

/sbin/ifup eth1

Good luck.