From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 9 19:56:16 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3215E1065679 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 2009 19:56:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDACB8FC1E for ; Sun, 9 Aug 2009 19:56:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Macintosh-4.local ([10.0.0.198]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.13.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id n79JuDSd055231 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 9 Aug 2009 12:56:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <4A7F29DD.30907@errno.com> Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:56:13 -0700 From: Sam Leffler Organization: Errno Consulting User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert References: <20090807165850.3e8541f8@vaio> <4A7DA0DF.50107@errno.com> <20090808134101.44d7d210@vaio> <4A7E5E2B.6060204@errno.com> <20090809100420.3ca4ff14@vaio> <20090809112759.3f1c2399@vaio> In-Reply-To: <20090809112759.3f1c2399@vaio> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DCC-x.dcc-servers-Metrics: ebb.errno.com; whitelist Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LOR wlan0 wi0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:56:16 -0000 Robert wrote: > On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 10:04:20 -0700 > Robert wrote: > >> On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:27:07 -0700 >> Sam Leffler wrote: >> >>> Robert wrote: >>>> On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:59:27 -0700 >>>> Sam Leffler wrote: >>>> >>>>> Robert wrote: >>>>>> Greetings >>>>>> >>>>>> I have just upgraded a laptop on my network to current: > > > > >>> I can confirm WEP is broken on wi in sta mode (and probably ap >>> mode). I found at least two bugs but couldn't get it to work so am >>> going to leave it as an errata for 8.0. But what's truly odd is >>> that WPA works fine despite a bug that should've caused it to not >>> work. I knew WPA worked which is probably why I ignored WEP (noone >>> in their right mind uses WEP when WPA is available :-)). >>> >>> Sam >> Sam >> >> I never claimed to be in my right mind. I haven't been myself since I >> quit smoking in 1986. :-) >> >> I tried WPA yesterday before answering the previous email. I kept >> getting and error stating: unable to start wpa_supplicant. >> >> I was thinking (always dangerous) that this old card maybe didn't have >> support for WPA. I'm probably wrong since I am not in my right mind. I >> was going to try again when the WG511T arrives. But now I will try >> again. >> >> Thanks again >> > > Sam > > Set up WPA again. The exact error is: > > wpa_supplicant[1919]: Failed to initialize driver interface > > I found this error message in wpa_supplicant.c at line 1772 as part of > > "static int wpa_supplicant_init_iface2(struct wpa_supplicant *wpa_s)" > > function. > > I am just guessing but it seems this card is unable to use WPA. I will > wait for the delivery and try with that one. > > Thanks for all of your help. You're probably correct. ifconfig wlan0 list caps will tell you for sure. I think I dropped this issue--that wpa_supplicant should check device capabilities when it hits an error to see if the device is even capable. I've got an MA401 but didn't find it. I tested with a different card the does support wpa. Sam