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On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 23:46 +0500, Ветошкин Никита wrote:
> Hi, I'm a user of Lenovo R61 laptop with Intel 3945 wireless card. I 
> have Gentoo and would like to use the iwlwifi + wpa_supplicant driver, 
> but I can't because Wi-Fi installed in our office needs WPA2 
> authentication and I can't connect to it. There no problems using ipw3945d.
> #wpa_supplicant config
> ap_scan=2
> network={
>          ssid="point1"
>          key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
>          scan_ssid=1
>          identity="nvetoshkin"
>          proto=WPA2
>          eap=TLS
>          ca_cert="/home/nekto/certificate.pem"
>          private_key="/home/nekto/nvetoshkin.p12"
>          private_key_passwd="nvetoshkin"
> }
> ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported - this error always appears 
> in wpa_supplicant output. I digged a bit in source code and found out 
> that it is mac80211 subsystem who returns ENOTSUP.
> Is it really the cause of my problems or am I just confused?

There's a number of SIOCSIWAUTH sub-options, and not all are necessary,
and not all are supported by every driver.  That's normal.  Ignore the
wpa_supplicant message.

Dan


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