Bug 139563

Summary: Unable to connect using WPA-TKIP with RaLink RT2500 card
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Rick Centeno <rick.centeno>
Component: NetworkAssignee: Joachim Gleissner <joachim.gleissner>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: mvidner
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: SuSE Linux 10.0   
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Attachments: my efcfg-wlan-ra0
the dmesg output
/var/log/messages

Description Rick Centeno 2005-12-16 10:54:20 UTC
After upgrading (reinstalling) from 9.2 to 10.0 the RaLink network card was not longer able to connect to my home network which is requiring WPA-TKIP configuration. Configuring YAST the card did not solve the issue, as Yast does not let you specify TKIP.

Under 9.2 the WPA_supplicant was not required for the RT2500 module. NOw it is being called as I can see from the trace, but is unable to make a connection nor getting an ip address.

Making an open connection to a non- secured basestation (the neighbours' one) is achievable, but not wanted.

ifup-ra0:
linux:~ # ifup ra0
    ra0       device: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card
(rev 01)
    ra0       configuration: wlan-ra0
    ra0       warning: WPA configured but may be unsupported
    ra0       warning: by this device
    ra0       starting wpa_supplicant
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
Starting DHCP Client Daemon on ra0... . . . . . no IP address yet...
backgrounding.

Doing iwconfig show the connection to an external basestation:
iwconfig:
ra0       RT2500 Wireless  ESSID:"SpeedTouchE02738"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.412 GHz  Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Link Quality=0/100  Signal level=-101 dBm  Noise level:-216
dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
Comment 1 Rick Centeno 2005-12-16 10:55:21 UTC
Created attachment 61069 [details]
my efcfg-wlan-ra0
Comment 2 Rick Centeno 2005-12-16 10:55:49 UTC
Created attachment 61070 [details]
the dmesg output
Comment 3 Rick Centeno 2005-12-16 10:56:11 UTC
Created attachment 61071 [details]
/var/log/messages
Comment 4 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-12-16 11:12:27 UTC
Assign to yast2-network due missing configuration point for this problem.
Add maintainer of wireless-tools to CC.
Comment 5 Martin Vidner 2005-12-16 11:28:32 UTC
Joachim please have a look and tell me if yast needs improvement.
Comment 6 Joachim Gleissner 2005-12-16 11:38:50 UTC
WPA with Ralink devices is not supported yet on SUSE Linux. As the driver wasn't included in SL 9.2 you probably compiled the driver yourself and used the RaConfig tool for setting up WPA.

The Ralink driver is actually rewritten and will most probably work with wpa_supplicant as soon WPA is implemented. So there is no need to modify YaST.
Comment 7 Rick Centeno 2005-12-16 13:10:47 UTC
Joachim,

Does this mean that there is no way to use Suse 10 with this set-up for the time being? Do I need to go back to 9.2 or 9.3? There the RT2500 driver worked AFAIK w/o wpa_supplicant support, after compiling it myself

Grateful for your comments and guidance on way forward/timing.
Comment 8 Joachim Gleissner 2005-12-16 13:33:23 UTC
> Does this mean that there is no way to use Suse 10 with this set-up for the time being?

Yes, exactly.

> There the RT2500 driver worked AFAIK w/o wpa_supplicant support, after compiling it myself

No one stops you from doing that also on 10.0. In fact, you only need to compile and install the RaConfig tool.
Comment 9 Martin Vidner 2005-12-16 13:57:30 UTC
And how about 10.1? Why don't we package RaConfig?
Comment 10 Joachim Gleissner 2005-12-16 14:03:30 UTC
Because we're going to include the new driver in 10.1 which obsoletes RaConfig. I don't know whether it will have already WPA support, though.