wpa_supplicant on ndis cannot associate

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Tue Aug 8 21:57:09 UTC 2006


On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 02:31:37PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> Dylan Alex Simon wrote:
> >> Are you by any chance not broadcasting the ssid on the WAP? I had problems
> >> similar to what you described when I turned that feature off, but when I
> >> turned it back on (so the WAP was broadcasting its ssid again) everything
> >> worked fine with wpa-psk and TKIP, and -D ndis. (I could not get any
> >> "higher" level of WPA working, but that's another story.)
> > 
> > The SSID is being broadcast (and shows up on the scan).  Actually, trying in a
> > controlled setup, it does work when I use RSN/WPA-PSK/TKIP with -D ndis.
> > However, it does not work with an open AP (no encryption/authentication).
> > wpa_supplicant seems to say that it will work with open networks if so
> > configured (key_mgmt=NONE).  Is this not the case?
> 
> It has not been the case in my experience. I have not been successful in
> getting wpa_supplicant to either set plain old WEP keys, or attach to an
> unencrypted network.

It works fine for me with iwi and ath devices.  The code is almost
entierly different in the ndis case though.

-- Brooks
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