Re: 11RC4 and WiFi issues - wpa_supplicant issues ioctl's with invalid argument

Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:34:57 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.current
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Michael,

Michael van Elst wrote:
>> disc$ sudo wpa_supplicant -Dbsd -iral0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
>> Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
>> ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=20, val=0, arg_len=7]: Invalid argument
>> ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=20, val=0, arg_len=7]: Invalid argument
> That is harmless. wpa_supplicant tries to use more keys than we
> support and is a bit noisy.

ok.. then I have no reason why it doesn't connect to WiFi! I tried 
several times, never connects nor say anything.

I also have a WEP as a relay router, ideal for older systems and testing 
and with WEP it connects and works.

So the culprit is WPA.

-R