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Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.6.4-3
I can not get Apple airport to use WPA via /etc/network/interfaces
This may be related to
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpasupplicant/+bug/37396
Modules hermes, orinoco and airport are from
linux-image-2.6.26-2-powerpc_2.6.26-21
/proc/sys/kernel/osrelease is 2.6.26-2-powerpc
> r...@bug:/etc/network# ifup eth2
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Invalid argument
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Invalid argument
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Invalid argument
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Invalid argument
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
> Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
DHCP went on to fail.
The modules are pulled to save power on laptop.
This worked with 128-bit WEP w/o wpasupplicant.
The preshared key is in plaintext.
It is not hex.
> iface eth2 inet dhcp
> wpa-driver wext
> wpa-ssid thessid
> wpa-psk thesecret
> wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
> pre-up \
> insmod
> /lib/modules/$(</proc/sys/kernel/osrelease)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/hermes.*o;
> \
> insmod
> /lib/modules/$(</proc/sys/kernel/osrelease)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.*o;
> \
> insmod
> /lib/modules/$(</proc/sys/kernel/osrelease)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/airport.*o
> post-down rmmod airport orinoco hermes
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On Monday 05 April 2010 14:42:22 Geoff Simmons wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 11:40:00AM +0800, Andrew Buckeridge wrote:
> > I can not get Apple airport to use WPA via /etc/network/interfaces
> [...]
> > Modules hermes, orinoco and airport are from
> > linux-image-2.6.26-2-powerpc_2.6.26-21
> > /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease is 2.6.26-2-powerpc
>
> The Orinoco driver included in this kernel version does not support WPA.
>
> Support for WPA (specifically WPA1+TKIP) was first included in this
> driver at Linux 2.6.28. Firmware from userspace is also required.
>
> See http://wiki.debian.org/orinoco for more information. This is not a
> wpa_supplicant issue.
Thanks for picking up on it Geoff. Closing the bug report.
Thanks, Kel.
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