Comments on: fix for wpa_supplicant breaking on ipw2200 when upgrading to 1.0.8

By: nc

nc — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:48:47 +0000

wpa_supplicant is supposed to be started with the ‘ifupdown.sh’ script. On my machine, this:

# Wireless ipw3945 card
iface eth1 inet dhcp
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

..will start it with the proper config file when I run ‘ifup eth1′.

By: fenerli

fenerli — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:45:17 +0000

I was hoping someone would have already asked this but where is the wpa_supplicant startup line?

I’m not that new to Linux so I was expecting to find it with a bit of Google and trial and error but got nothing.

# locate wpa_supplicant
/etc/wpa_supplicant
/etc/wpa_supplicant/functions.sh
/etc/wpa_supplicant/ifupdown.sh
/sbin/wpa_supplicant
( and some docs/man pages)

None of the above are any good. I also had a look at other network config files such as /etc/network/interfaces but again, nothing. If it matters, the interfaces file already specifies the wext driver and wireless works, it just needs a restart to the networking daemon every hard boot and that is where the ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]… warning is given.

By: nc

nc — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 05:35:42 +0000

Aaron –

Do you have all the 802.11 options compiled into your kernel? You’ll probably need at least the following:

CONFIG_IEEE80211=m
CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_WEP=m
CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_CCMP=m
CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_TKIP=m

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 05:26:50 +0000

Have you seen this one? I believe we have the same (or similar) laptops…Inspiron 6000. I am running the 2.6.14.2 kernel with wpa_supplicant and ipw2200.

ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
WEXT auth param 7 value 0×1 - ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
WEXT auth param 4 value 0×0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
WEXT auth param 5 value 0×1 -

By: Bryce

Bryce — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:22:48 +0000

Thank you thank you thank you! Luckily I found this fairly quickly, and my hair is still intact, and no computers were broken.

By: WaY

WaY — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:25:23 +0000

I love you too. Thank you very much… so much wasted time.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:12:14 +0000

Thanks man. I spent a whole bunch of time of this thinking I was being stupid and I guess I was , but thanks for the info..

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 00:36:52 +0000

I love you. I’m sure you can begin to guess how long I’ve spent trying to work that sodding thing out! I hate computers. Perhaps I should be a forest ranger instead.

Thanks for saving my sanity!