After working for an extremely long time to get my wireless card to work in Linux (which was a bunch of unnessecary time, I should've read the docs) I only have one problem remaining in front of me.
I'd like to use WPA, and wpa_supplicant is giving me problems. iwlist can detect the AP and ifconfig and everything work fine, so it's not any driver problems as far as I can tell.
I'm using a Netgear WG511, at eth1.
wpa_supplicant:
Code:
# wpa_supplicant -Dprism54 -ieth1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
wpa_driver_prism54_set_countermeasures - not yet implemented
Trying to associate with 00:12:17:45:c2:c2 (SSID='Home WLAN' freq=2462 MHz)
Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
ioctl[SIOCGIWSCAN]: Input/output error
ioctl[SIOCGIWSCAN]: Input/output error
ioctl[SIOCGIWSCAN]: Input/output error
... (continued until CTRL+C)
CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING - signal 2 received
wpa_driver_prism54_set_countermeasures - not yet implemented
ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Input/output error
It is worth noting that the last ioctl error is different from the rest. Not that I know what any of these codes means, but any help would be appreciated. The debug output doesn't help much, but the repeating ioctl messages show as this:
Code:
Setting scan request: 1 sec 0 usec
Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID)
Scan timeout - try to get results
ioctl[SIOCGIWSCAN]: Input/output error
Scan results: -1
Failed to get scan results
Failed to get scan results - try scanning again
[repeat]
Perhaps it needs longer to scan? I'm not sure how to set this -- this is my first time with Linux and wireless networks, though I've worked on Linux servers for a few years now. I'm now trying to get it to work on my laptop.
It seems to me that the card is not sending the scan results back to wpa_supplicant. Either it finds no APs (but "iwlist eth1 scan" does) or the card is refusing to communicate properly.
I'd appreciate any help on this issue, and if anyone would like additional information I'll be back later tomorrow.
Edit: In "iwlist eth1 scan" it mentions "Extra:wpa_ie=<hex data>". Is this anything I need to worry about? All my wireless networking experience (and through it WPA experience) is from Windows so I'm not sure.