Thread: [zd1211-devs] Help using zd1211
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From: Craig N. <cra...@gm...> - 2009-12-06 23:04:22
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Sorry about posting this configuration related question here, but I'm at my wits end trying to get an IOGear USB WiFi dongle to connect a TS-7800 ARM to a WPA2 Personal network via DHCP. # uname -a Linux ts7800 2.6.21-ts #1 PREEMPT Fri Oct 10 10:20:42 MST 2008 armv5tejl GNU/Linux I was following the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WPAHowTo, which seem pretty vanilla. I first did: # iwconfig which produced: eth0 no wireless extensions. lo no wireless extensions. eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"" Nickname:"zd1211" Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid Encryption key:off Link Quality:0/100 Signal level:-144 dBm Noise level:0 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 That seemed helpful, as it seems to know about the dongle and it's calling it eth1. I then did: # wpa_passphrase my_ssid my_passwd which generated: network={ ssid="my_ssid" #psk="my_passwd" psk=...long number... } So I added to the bottom of /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf network={ ssid="my_ssid" #psk="my_passwd" psk=...long number... key_mgmt=WPA-PSK proto=WPA } But if I do: wpa_supplicant -ieth1 -Dwext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -w I get a bunch of lines that look like: Trying to associate with {MAC address here} (SSID='my_ssid' freq=0 MHz) Associated with {MAC address here} ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument WPA: Failed to set PTK to the driver. CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys It looks like ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument may be the culprit, but when I tried Googling that in various incarnations, I got nowhere. Can anyone help? Many TIA, Craig |
From: Hin-Tak L. <hin...@ya...> - 2009-12-07 00:39:58
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--- On Sun, 6/12/09, Craig Niederberger <cra...@gm...> wrote: > Sorry about posting this > configuration related question here, but I'm > at my wits end trying to get an IOGear USB WiFi dongle to > connect a > TS-7800 ARM to a WPA2 Personal network via DHCP. > > # uname -a > Linux ts7800 2.6.21-ts #1 PREEMPT Fri Oct 10 10:20:42 MST > 2008 > armv5tejl GNU/Linux snipped > It looks like ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument may > be the > culprit, but when I tried Googling that in various > incarnations, I got > nowhere. Get a new kernel. wireless-extension changes/enhances quite a lot - and that looks like incompatibility between kernel interface and user-land tools. 2.6.21 is about 3-4 years old? You would be hard-pressed to find anybody at all who is willing to help you at all on wireless-related issues for such an old kernel. If you insist on using an antique kernel, you are mostly on your own. |