wpa_supplicant problem

[mlee07946]

After the latest update a few days ago of wpa_supplicant for Fedora 7, wpa_supplicant gives errors on startup:

Starting wpa_supplicant: /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, -iwlan0, -Dwextioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
WEXT auth param 5 value 0x1 -

this happens whether starting from boot, or restarting wpa_supplicant by hand. WPA wireless connections then fail.

Is this a bug, or have my configuration files somehow been screwed up in the update? (the /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file makes no mention of these switches - or any other file i can find)

Many thanks for any help

[Brian1]

Things to check.
Did you upgrade the kernel? If so did you get the kmod for ndiswrapper for that kernel?
Post output of the following commands.
uname -r
rpm -qa | grep kernel
rpm -qa | grep ndis
rpm -qa | grep kmod
/sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper

Have you turned off WPA on the router and make a non secure connection?

Brian

[Iron_Mike]

After the latest update a few days ago of wpa_supplicant for Fedora 7, wpa_supplicant gives errors on startup:

Starting wpa_supplicant: /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, -iwlan0, -Dwextioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
WEXT auth param 5 value 0x1 -

this happens whether starting from boot, or restarting wpa_supplicant by hand. WPA wireless connections then fail.

Is this a bug, or have my configuration files somehow been screwed up in the update? (the /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file makes no mention of these switches - or any other file i can find)

Many thanks for any help

Actually it is telling you the -D parameter is the error, it is looking for the wireless extensions (wext) are you running NDISWRAPPER, or MADWIFI, or some other wireless drivers??

[mlee07946]

Thanks for the help so far - I'm using the iwl3945 driver. I can't turn off the WPA on the router (don't have access) - but the wireless networks are being detected, so the wireless card is working to some extent. I'm pretty sure it worked directly before the wpa_supplicant update, which was after the latest kernel update. It doesn't work with previous kernels either.

Info asked for:

uname -r:

2.6.23.1-21.fc7

rpm -qa | grep kernel:

kernel-2.6.23.1-21.fc7
kernel-headers-2.6.23.1-21.fc7
kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-21.fc7
kernel-2.6.23.1-10.fc7
kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-10.fc7

rpm -qa | grep kmod:

mikmod-3.2.2-2.fc7

rpm -qa | grep ndis: nothing found. /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper also doesn't find the module, but I'm assuming this should be the case if I'm using iwl3945?

Thanks