wpa connection fails; wext driver chosen for madwifi card
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#27 wpa connection fails; wext driver chosen for madwifi card
With a NEC atheros 5212 chipset card using madwifi-ng 1.0.9.3.2~rc1 and wlassistant 0.5.7, wlassistant fails to connect to wpa_supplicant with the message:
"Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: No such file or directory"
This appears to be because wlassistant is using the wrong driver when calling wpa_supplicant, as it echoes:
"Using wpa_supplicant driver: wext"
Just before that.
Calling wpa_supplicant manually using wlassistant's configuration file like so:
wpa_supplicant -Dmadwifi -iath0 -c/root/.kde/share/config/wlassistant
succeeds in starting up a working connection.
Now (06.06.2009) the draft implementation of driver selection support is available in SVN repo. Test reports and comments are welcome.