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Bug#550739: marked as done (Wrong SIOCSIWENCODEEXT return code when crypto module not loaded)

Your message dated Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:08:12 +0000
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and subject line Re: Wrong SIOCSIWENCODEEXT return code when crypto module not loaded
has caused the Debian Bug report #550739,
regarding Wrong SIOCSIWENCODEEXT return code when crypto module not loaded
to be marked as done.

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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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Version: 2.6.37~rc4-1~experimental.1

My fix for this was included upstream in 2.6.37-rc1.

Ben.

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