Bug#550739: Wrong SIOCSIWENCODEEXT return code when crypto module not loaded
Package: linux-2.6
Version: 2.6.30-7
Here is a relevant fragment from http://bugs.debian.org/506223 about the
problem.
> > WPA: Sending EAPOL-Key 4/4
> > WPA: TX EAPOL-Key - hexdump(len=99): 01 03 00 5f 02 03 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 de 32 41 70 ef ea 9e 2f ce 1c ef b5 48 52 32 f8 00 00
> > WPA: Installing PTK to the driver.
> > wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=3 key_idx=0 set_tx=1 seq_len=6 key_len=16
> > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Cannot allocate memory
> [...]
>
> This indicates that the mac80211 code was unable to set up the AES
> encryption/decryption state for WPA. Excluding the unlikely case that
> the system is really out of memory, this means that the 'aes' module is
> not available. Please try adding that to your installation image.
This made it difficult to set up WPA-based networking, as the error message
does not point in the right direction.
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Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org> http://marcin.owsiany.pl/
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