WPA on Atheros.

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

Hello,

I'm trying to get NetworkManager running with madwifi and wpa-psk. It
tends to work (after a long association time) with WEP, but with wpa it
just pops up a message saying "The requested wireless network requires
security capabilities unsupported by your hardware."

I know it should work, since I get the impression that that's the
hardware the esteemed Mister Robert Love (just got your book yesterday,
good stuff!) uses.

I'm using NetworkManager 0.6, wpa_supplicant 0.5.1, and madwifi v1443.
I'm using Robert's patch for forcing madwifi, and a timeout of 90 seconds.

The log doesn't show anything concretely wrong with it, it's pasted in
below.

I'm just about ready to dump this card in favour of ipw or something.
It's silly that all of this worked better when I got it two years ago. I
can't understand the ridiculous regressions in madwifi.

--Pat



Mar  9 00:01:16 inspiron NetworkManager: <debug info>
[1141880476.510155] nm_device_802_11_wireless_get_activation_ap ():
Forcing AP 'suwnet'
Mar  9 00:01:16 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  User Switch:
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/ath0 / suwnet
Mar  9 00:01:16 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Deactivating
device ath0.
Mar  9 00:01:16 inspiron dhclient: can't create
/var/lib/dhclient/dhclient-ath0.leases: No such file or directory
Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Device ath0
activation scheduled...
Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Activation
(ath0) started...
Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Activation
(ath0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Old device
'ath0' activating, won't change.
Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Activation
(ath0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Activation
(ath0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Activation
(ath0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Activation
(ath0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Activation
(ath0/wireless): access point 'suwnet' is encrypted, but NO valid key
exists.  New key needed.
Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Activation
(ath0) New wireless user key requested for network 'suwnet'.
Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Activation
(ath0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.

And that's all she bloody wrote. It just sits there after that.