wpa supplicant fails to start

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 5/15/09, Martin Smith <martinsm at gn.apc.org> wrote:
> >From dmesg:
> May 15 13:38:32 lp2 kernel: ath0: <Atheros 2417> mem 0x88000000-0x8800ffff
> irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
> May 15 13:38:32 lp2 kernel: ath0: [ITHREAD]
> May 15 13:38:32 lp2 kernel: ath0: AR2417 mac 15.0 RF5424 phy 7.0
>
> My wpa_supplicant.conf:
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> ctrl_interface_group=wheel
> network={
>   ssid="myssid"
>   scan_ssid=1
>   key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
>   psk="my wpa secret"
> }
>
> I have put this together using both the handbook and the
> wpa_supplicant.conf man page, do I need to add anything else?
>
> I get this error:
> lp2# wpa_supplicant -i ath0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> ioctl[SIOCG80211, op 98, len 32]: Invalid argument
> Failed to initialize driver interface
> ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=4 eloop_data=0x28406140 user_data=0x2840d040
> handler=0x8069f50
>
> I obviously have something wrong, can anyone point me in the right
> direction.
>
> System is current as of yesterday rebuilt.

You mean CURRENT?, in that case you should use wlan0 and not ath0.

> Card is TP-Link TL-WN310G
> Machine is a Thinkpad X23
>
> lp2# ifconfig -a
> fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> 	options=2009<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,WOL_MAGIC>
> 	ether 00:d0:59:b5:a2:0c
> 	inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
> 	media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
> 	status: active
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
> 	options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
> 	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
> 	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> 	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> ath0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
> 	ether 00:23:cd:c5:c3:c9
> 	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
> 	status: no carrier
>
> Thanks for any pointers
>
>
>
>
> --
> Martin
>
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-- 
Paul