Re: bcm43xx with WPA
On 2/3/06, Joerg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
> Hello Joerg,
>
> Joerg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to use the bcm43xx driver with wpa, but it does not work. I've
> > applied the patch from
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de/msg00480.html
> > and loaded the new module, but wpa_supplicant reports "operation not
> > supported"
> >
> > # iwconfig eth1
> > eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
> > Mode:Managed Frequency=2.472 GHz Access Point: Invalid
> > Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power=off
> > RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> > Encryption key:off
> >
> > # wpa_supplicant -i eth1 -Dwext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> > ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
>
> I did not apply the patch correctly. After doing this, I get
> wpa_supplicant working, but not really. The output is at
> http://www.minet.uni-jena.de/~joergs/wpa.log and at
> http://www.minet.uni-jena.de/~joergs/iwevent.log I put the output of
> iwevent while running wpa_supplicant. Can someone tell me what goes wrong?
>
> On IRC, I've got the to build with dscape, but the debian modules do only
> provide softmac and the only stuff I found for dscape needs a new kernel
> 2.6.16-rc1.
>
2.5.15 for dscape.
regards,
Bin
> Regards, Jörg.
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