Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 17:04:03 -0700 From: Daniel Hanson <dhanson@securityfocus.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 6, WPA-PSK, wpa_supplicant and a IBM a31p Message-ID: <20051218000403.GB7506@securityfocus.com>
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Ok, I've exhausted a FreeBSD phanatic friend of mine, and spent quite a while trying different configurations to get this working, and am coming up against a brick wall.
I am attempting to setup a Thinkpad a31p with a built in wireless card, it uses the wi driver. The output of dmesg
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wi0: <Intersil Prism2.5> mem 0xf8000000-0xf8000fff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2
wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI)
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.0.7), Station (1.3.6)
wi0: Ethernet address: 00:20:e0:8c:ea:87
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It will happily chatter unencrypted, but, well, I would rather have wpa-psk on my home setup. so, after following the various man pages, handbook pages, and some webpages I am currently doing the following.
Boot
kldload wlan_wep wlan_acl wlan_ccmp wlan_tkip ( Ihave also loaded wlan_xauth under some config attempts although nothign I have read indicates this is required)
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf contains
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ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1 ####I have tried ap_scan=2 more details below
fast_reauth=1
network={
ssid="my_ssid"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk="my_passphrase"
}
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When I start wpa_supplicant, it seems to find the SSID, and then nothign... no errors, no nothing, I have the debug enabled output of the wpa_supplicant -dd command that I can include as a text file, but it is a little long (due to teh ping and commands issued from wpa_cli).
At one point, I tried changing ap_scan=1 to ap_scan=2, as someone had posted they had done. I saw immediate (well once I reinitiated teh wpa_supplicant command) results. All of a sudden, it found, and as best as I can tell, tried to negotiate. but threw out the following error.
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wpa_driver_bsd_associate: ssid 'myssid' wpa ie len 22 pairwise 3 group 3 key mgmt 1
wpa_driver_bsd_associate:
ioctl[SIOCS80211, op 21 len 42] invalid request
association request to the driver failed
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The AP uses WPA-PSK(TKIP), I have tried it with the network directive including proto as WPA and WPA2, key_mgmt as TKIP, pairwise as TKIP, and probably a few other things I am currently forgeting.
Thoughts, ideas? directions. From my reading of the man pages, ap_scan should only ever be 1, and the others are used for other OS's, which might explain the error that I am receiving when it's set to 2. I am at a dead end of where I can look to further investigate.
D
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