Re: Problems with 1.1.3 and WPA

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 10:44 +0800, Nick Bower wrote:
> eth1      Scan completed :
>           Cell 01 - Address: 00:13:C3:F0:87:E0
>                     ESSID:"<hidden>"
>                     Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
>                     Mode:Master
>                     Channel:7
>                     Encryption key:on
>                     Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:6 Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:9 Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:12 Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:18 Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:24 Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:36 Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:48 Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
>                     Quality=83/100  Signal level=-47 dBm
>                     (Unknown Wireless Token 0x8C05)
>                     (Unknown Wireless Token 0x8C05)

0x8C05 is IWEVGENIE. You need a to update your wireless_tools.

>                     Extra: Last beacon: 736ms ago
> 
> It's a Cisco Aironet 1200 series with WPA2/AES.
> 
> I've now just got this working by rebuilding the latest wpa_supplicant package 
> and after alot of trying everything, a difference is made by removing 2 lines 
> in the following config;
> 
> network={
>     proto=RSN
>     scan_ssid=1
>     key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
>     ssid="xxxx"
>     psk="xxxxxxxxxxx"
> #    pairwise=CCMP
> #    group=CCMP
> }
> 
> If these two lines are present, then I get repeated scanning with cypher 
> mis-matches.  Maybe the wpa_supplicant has probably fallen back to WPA?  
> (This WPA2->WPA fallback seems to be mentioned when tracking back through the 
> wpa_supplicant Changelog @0.4.6).

Not sure. You might want to ask in wpa_supplicant ML.

Thanks,
-yi


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