Bug 99566 – wpa_supplicant-0.4.3-r1 breaks with ipw2200

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Harris Landgarten 2005-07-19 12:21:12 UTC]

After emerging wpa_supplicate-0.4.3-r1 net.eth1 will no longer start and
wpa_supplicant daemon will not load. /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start gives the
following error:

 Starting eth1
 *   Starting wpa_supplicant on eth1 ...
ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: Operation not supported                              [ ok ]
 *     timed out                               

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.2.2, 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
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
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/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/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j12"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/harrisl/overlay"
SYNC="rsync://custom2/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X acl acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl
dvd eds emboss encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm
gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib ipv6 java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif
mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png
python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff
truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts userlocales vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xv
zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-07-19 12:41:28 UTC]

Which version of sys-apps/baselayout? Which version of net-wireless/ipw2200? Did
you try rebooting after upgrading?

[Comment 2 Harris Landgarten 2005-07-20 06:49:05 UTC]

Evidently the wpa_supplicant daemon will not load if the it can not find an AP
with a matching ssid in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. I thought I would be able to
use wpa_cli to configure and connect to a new access point interactively before
adding it to the conf file. wpa_cli cannot be used this way until wpa_supplicant
is loaded. Shouldn't the wpa_supplicant daemon load even if it can't find an AP
with the right ssid? Then wpa_cli could be used in a similar fashion to iwconfig.

I am using ipw2200-1.0.6 and baselayout-1.11.13

[Comment 3 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-07-21 04:14:04 UTC]

No, you will need to set up /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf prior to using
wpa_supplicant as noted in the ebuild.