linux-kernel - Re: Weird wireless/wpa

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Date:	Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:16:23 -0800
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Weird wireless/wpa_supplicant screw-up.

On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 03:14 -0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 17:22 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> > (This could be user error/userspace bug, feel free to point me in the right
> > direction if you think so.  Hopefully somebody knows what I've broken this
> > time...)
> > 
> > Fedora Rawhide as of this morning, 2.6.33-mmotm0304 kernel, wpa_supplicant-0.6.8-8.fc13.x86_64
> > wireless-tools-29-5.1.fc12.x86_64.  Dell Latitude E6500, Intel 5100AGN card.
> > 
> > So I finally get a few spare cycles, and re-try getting WPA2 working on our
> > enterprise wireless network, and wpa_supplicant reports it completed
> > successfully and set the keys,
> 
> and does it work? The iwlist stuff could just be a reporting error...

In fact, it's not even an error, it's perfectly normal because we use
that key for RX only since that's the group key ... So if there is a
problem, iwlist is completely unsuitable for diagnosing it.

johannes

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