Bug#550739: Wrong SIOCSIWENCODEEXT return code when crypto module not loaded

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

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On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 05:52:39PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> 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.

Hi,
The next release of Debian (6.0, code name Squeeze) will be based
on 2.6.32. Please test the current 2.6.32 from unstable/testing and tell
us whether the problem persists. If so, we should report it upstream
to the kernel.org developers.

The 2.6.32 kernel is available from packages.debian.org and can
be installed in both Debian stable, testing and unstable
installations.

Thanks,
        Moritz