The wpa_supplicant failed during starting wpa_cli on eth1 with error "Failed to configure ethX in background" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
*** Bug 111054 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 111055 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Assigning to mobile as I cannot get wpa_supplicant-0.4.6 to work at all with my madwifi whereas 0.4.5 works just fine.
I also run this combo, but I only get that failed to configure thing once in a while... most of the times it works... I configure it with WEP atm, if that has anything to do with it.
Plase attach the output of `emerge --info` and your kernel .config file. Which driver are you using? What related entries do you have in your /etc/conf.d/{net,wireless} files? What is the output from running wpa_supplicant manually?
emerge --info Portage 2.0.53_rc6 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.14-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fstack-protector -msse2"CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fstack-protector -msse2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccach collision-protect distlocks maketest sandbox sfperms strict test userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="de_DE.utf8" LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8" LINGUAS="de" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 avi bzlib caca calendar cdr cgi cli cpdflib crypt cups dhcp divx encode esd evo exif flac foomaticdb ftp gd-external gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk2 gtkhtml hal hbci howl iconv ipv6 irda jpeg ldap libwww live mad maildir mbox md5sum mikmod mmx mng mono motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mpeg mppe-mppc mysql ncurses netapplet nls nntp nptl nsplugin oggvorbis opengl openssh pam pcmcia pcre pdflib php plotutils png ppds python qt quicktime readline real samba sdl session simplexml slang sockets spell sqlite sse ssl svg svga tiff transcode truetype unicode usb userlocales vhosts videos wavelan win32codecs wmf xface xfs xml xml2 xmlrpc xosd xv zlib linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY --------------------------------------- Kernel: gentoo-sources-2.6.14 .config relating to wep/wpa CONFIG_IEEE80211=y CONFIG_IEEE80211_DEBUG=y CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_WEP=y CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_CCMP=y CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_TKIP=y ------------- I use the ipw2100 driver ------------- Ralted entries in /etc/conf.d/net modules_eth1=( "wpa_supplicant" ) wpa_supplicant_eth1="-Dwext" ------------ Output /etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart * Stopping eth1 * Bringing down eth1 * Shutting down eth1 ... [ ok ] * Stopping wpa_cli on eth1 ... [ ok ] * Stopping wpa_supplicant on eth1 ... [ ok ] * Starting eth1 * Changing MAC address of eth1 ... [ ok ] * changed to xxxxxxxx * Starting wpa_supplicant on eth1 ... ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 7 value 0x1 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 5 value 0x1 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supporte [ ok ] * Starting wpa_cli on eth1 ... [ ok ] * Failed to configure eth1 in the background
Please try using "-D ipw" instead - and try the external ipw2100 driver found in net-wireless/ipw2100. You forgot to attach the output of running wpa_supplicant manually (not the init script).
wpa_supplicant -i eth1 -D ipw -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: Operation not supported ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported
wpa_supplicant-0.3.x with kernel 2.6.13 worked already fine
Starting with linux-2.6.13, you need to use "-D wext" - not "-D ipw". Please try that and report back.
it worked already finde with 2.6.13, but now I want to use 2.6.14
It wont work with "-D ipw" under linux-2.6.14 either.
wpa_supplicant -i eth1 -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 7 value 0x1 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 5 value 0x1 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 7 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported Failed to disable WPA in the driver. WEXT auth param 5 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
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wpa_cli status output: wpa_cli -i eth1 status wpa_state=SCANNING Supplicant PAE state=DISCONNECTED suppPortStatus=Unauthorized EAP state=DISABLED
Please try running `/bin/sh /usr/portage/net-wireless/ieee80211/remove-old /usr/sr/linux` and then `emerge ieee80211 ipw2100`. I think your system is messed up with version inconsistencies of the ieee80211/ipw2100 modules...
After troubles with ipw2100-fimeware and hence downgrading to udev-69, wpa_supplicant works fine. But I don't know why!
