Re: atheros card and wpa_supplicant

["Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/30/06, Alex Burke <alexjeffburke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I managed to patch the source tree with the latest patch to cbb, and
> now the system boots *WITH* the atheros card left in.
>
> I then compiled the atheros driver, and having loaded all the required
> modules the card is definitely detected and I see the power light turn
> on - it obviosuly probes and attaches, and it is listed under ifconfig
> as ath0. So that part I guess is sucess.
>
> I thenattempted to get wpa working, and things fell apart a bit. I
> made sure i used the same wpa_supplicant.conf as i had done in FreeBSD
> 6, it specifies things like the ssid, WPA-PSK, scan_ssid = 1 and
> obviously the psk itself.
>
> I ran the build supplicant with this config file, and it said:
> pcap_open_live: BIOCSETIF: ath0: Network is down
> ifname='ath0'

Have you run at least `ifconfig ath0 up' before `wpa_supplicant -i
ath0 -c conf'?

> I turned on debugging output, and i saw masses of stuff about EAPOL
> and it not getting keys, and I assume that means the supplicant was
> for some reason starting in the wrong mode.
>
> At this point I am not sure what else to do, and help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Alex J Burke.


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