Daniel Ostrow wrote:
> <snip>
>> ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
>> WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 -
>> ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
>> WEXT auth param 5 value 0x1 -
> </snip>
>
> For what it is worth I get the above messages from wpa_supplicant as
> well using b43. They don't seem to inhibit the functionality of my setup
> at all but I am including details below for whatever the information
> will help with.
>
> My system is a Dell Latitude D520, it has a 4311 in addition to a b44
> wired nick, I have ssb, b44 and b43 compiled as modules (not by choice
> but my machine panics if I build in ssb and b44 and leave b43 as a
> module) from a pull of the #everything branch from Linville's
> wireless-dev tree from yesterday. I am running Gentoo (as if the e-mail
> address didn't give that away) with wpa_supplicant-0.5.8. I am
> connecting to two different networks using wpa_supplicant one WPA-PSK
> the other WPA2-PSK, the (edited) configs are below.
>
> network={
> ssid="gatekeeper"
> key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> psk="<pass-key>"
> priority=1
> }
>
> network={
> ssid="WSTMBLG2"
> proto=RSN
> key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> pairwise=TKIP
> group=TKIP
> psk="<pass-key>"
> priority=2
> }
>
> I did not see these messages from wpa_supplicant before I moved to b43
> from bcm43xx (softmac). As I said though...they don't seem to inhibit
> anything, I associate and connect at very good rates, just thought I'd
> pass along the anecdotal information. Kepp up the great work, the driver
> works like a charm!
In bcm43xx, those IOCTL's were implemented. In mac80211, they are not as they
are not needed. As you
see, those messages are not fatal.
Larry
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