Problem with iwn driver and wpa_supplicant.

[synack]

Hi,

I am having some problems' getting my laptop to join my wireless access point. I am running FreeBSD stable 8 on an asus N50VN.

In my MYKERNEL config file I have the following;


device iwn
device iwnfw


In my /boot/loader.conf I have;


legal.intel_iwn.license_ack=1


in my /etc/rc.conf I have;


wlans_iwn0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"


and finally in my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf I have;


network{
ssid="myssid"
scan_ssid=1
mode=0
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk="mykey"
}


When the laptop boots I get;


Starting wpa_supplicant
/etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant: WARNING: failed to start wpa_supplicant


and then it brings up wlan0 :x

The wireless light is on so I know the hardware switch is on..

I have also tried (from the handbook);


/etc/rc.d/netif start


which brings up this stuff;


ifconfig: create: bad value
starting wpa_supplicant


Then I try


wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf


and I get something about;


Failed to disable WPA in the driver.
ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=4 eloop_data-0x800e0b1c0 user_data=0x800e070f0 handler=0x421840


any help would be great.

[thuglife]

wlans_iwn0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA_DHCP"

Remove the underscore from WPA_DHCP.

wpa_supplicant -i ath0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

ath0? You should use wlan0.

[synack]

hey,

those are both typos'.

Sorry

Now when I run


wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS

when I ^c I get;

ioctl[SIOCS80211, op 26 arg 0x0]: Operation not permitted
Failed to disable WPA in the driver

[vermaden]

@synack

Check this howto: http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=3651

[synack]

thankyou for the help and link. but when I change my wpa_supplicant.conf to


network={
ssid="myssid"
proto=WPA
psk="MYpsk"
}


I still get


CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
until I ^c


when I disable WPA on the access point and just try dhclient I get;


wlan0: no link ......

[synack]

now when I run


/etc/rc.d/netif start I get;
ifconfig: create: bad value

[outsid3r]

Is your psk correct? check it by using $wpa_passphrase which receives 2 parameters, the ssid and the key.

[bschmidt]

Post the output of wpa_supplicant -Dbsd -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -ddt please.

[datastream]

now when I run


/etc/rc.d/netif start I get;
ifconfig: create: bad value



#wpa_passphrase your-ssid your-passphrase >>/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

get your wireless card

#ifconfig
em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=399b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM, TSO4,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC>
ether 00:1c:25:1c:fc:d3
media: Ethernet autoselect
status: no carrier
iwn0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
ether 00:1d:e0:48:1d:1f
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
status: associated
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

well you find your wireless card is iwn0.
so in /etc/rc.conf,you should add

wlans_iwn0=wlan0
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
wpa_supplicant_enable="YES"

[fronclynne]

Maybe related to this bug (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/142766) which doesn't seem to have had any attention paid since mid January. Check to see if you also are getting the "need multicast update callback" line in your dmesg.