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dninja

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Registered: 2006-04-29

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does wpa_supplicant 0.5.8 support prism54?

I've got a netgear wg511with the prism54 chipset. I've put the firmware in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ and the device has appeared as eth1. When I try to run wpa_supplicant I get this message:

# wpa_supplicant -B prism54 -ieth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 -

The config file I'm using works fine with my atheros card so I know that is ok and some googling for the error implies that the error message means that the prism54 driver isn't supported by wpa_supplicant.

Has anyone else got prism54 working with wpa?

tomk

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Re: does wpa_supplicant 0.5.8 support prism54?

-B just makes it run in the background, and it doesn't take an argument. If you meant -D, prism54 is not a specifically-supported driver, so use the generic wext option instead.

All this is in the man page, btw.

dninja

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Re: does wpa_supplicant 0.5.8 support prism54?

The -B was a typo. I tried it with -D wext which got a bit further but still doesn't work

# wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - Trying to associate with 00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (SSID='xxx' freq=2462 MHz)
Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.

The trying to associate and time out messages then repeats 7 times then changes to

Trying to associate with 00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (SSID='xxx' freq=2462 MHz)
ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Input/output error
Association request to the driver failed
Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.

note the extra error message.

This is the conf file I'm using. It works fine for the atheros card but not for the prism

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=2

network={
        ssid="xxx"
        psk="xxx"
        priority=1
        proto=WPA
        pairwise=TKIP
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}

I've checked and the card will associate with the AP if I switch to WEP and other stations can connect to the AP while in WPA mode so it doesn't appear to be the AP at fault.

Can you suggest anything else?

dninja

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Re: does wpa_supplicant 0.5.8 support prism54?

And before anyone suggests it, there is no MAC address filtering turned on on the AP.