wpa supplicant fails to start

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 5/16/09, Martin Smith <martinsm at gn.apc.org> wrote:
> Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Tried that too, just get Failed to onitialize the driver interface.
> I also tried making an Ndis module, it recognises the card when loaded
> but the I get a kernel panic and everything grinds to a halt.

You will need to be more specific what you did and what you didn't.

What FreeeBSD version are you using?

If kernel paniced than it would be very helpfull to provide
backtrace and exact way how to reproduce it.

>>
>>> Card is TP-Link TL-WN310G
>>> Machine is a Thinkpad X23

-- 
Paul