Howard Chu wrote: > Dave wrote: >> Howard Chu wrote: >>> Sigh, nothing's ever easy. After abandoning the CTX714 I mentioned in an >>> earlier email, I find that the Thinkpad T42 I got from eBay came with some >>> kind of Orinoco 802.11B mini-PCI card installed. Ubuntu Jaunty's 2.6.28 kernel >>> loads up the orinoco_cs driver for this card. It appears that this driver only >>> supports WPA-PSK, and I use WPA-EAP on my home wlan. Has anyone done any work >>> on supporting WPA-EAP for this card? >> >> Note that the card only supports TKIP, so it won't work if the AP >> doesn't offer it. > > Thanks, that may have been the issue I was facing at first. My AP was > configured for CCMP. I've now set it to TKIP and seem to be getting further. > But now when I start wpa_supplicant I see a stream of "Information frame lost" > messages in dmesg that pretty much never end (interspersed once in a while > with ratelimit messages). I wonder if this laptop's mini-PCI slot is hosed or > something. That message is printed in response to a firmware interrupt. It indicates "an unsolicited Frame Structure cannot be generated... because there is not enough Frame Structure buffer space available". I suspect that the beacons/probe responses/scan results are either too large/too frequent for the card to handle, or the firmware can't decipher them. Before enabling wpa_supplicant, can you try scan for your AP (as root): iwlist ethX scan essid YYYYY I'm interested in what it returns, and whether dmesg reports 'Ext scan results too large' or something similar. Dave. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
