madwifi and wpa_supplicant (UPDATED)

[JoeyJoeJoe]

I have another post that Redhead was helping me with, but I think I have made progress and have found another issue.

Since there was a known good wpa_supplicant.conf file on my Ubuntu laptop, I just copied that one to my server's /etc folder and changed the ap_scan value from 2 to 1.

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ap_scan=1

network={
        ssid="MYSSID"
	scan_ssid=1
	proto=WPA RSN
	key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
	pairwise=CCMP TKIP
	group=CCMP TKIP
	psk=94632462d61f15cab6d5734014a333df523aa6e94bacc970313db5b2fabfd6d
}

I ran

wpa_supplicant -Dmadwifi -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

with my router's web interface open and, shazam! It was picking up an IP address. I could ping it. I even opened http://192.168.1.111 and saw the default apache page ("It works!").

Excellent.

But I go back to the command line interface on my server and see the following:

Trying to associate with ('MAC address of my router') (SSID='MYSSID' freq=2457 MHz)
ioctl[IEEE80211_ioctl>setmlme]: Invalid argument
Association request to the driver failed
Associated with ('MAC address of my router')
WPA: Key negotiation completed with ('MAC address of my router') [PTK=CCMP CTK=TKIP]
CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to ('MAC address of my router') completed (auth) [id=0 id_str=]

then a long long long pause until this appeared

WPA: group rekeying completed with ('MAC address of my router') [GTK=TKIP]

and now I cannot do anything to get the command prompt back. If I ctrl-C, I drop my connection.

I'm gonna let this ride and see what happens, but unless this process releases, I can't do much command-line wise.

Thanks,
JJJ

[redhead]

type in:

# wpa_supplicant -Dmadwifi -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf &

The ampersant at the end is crucial to gaining your control back.

[JoeyJoeJoe]

Did the trick, though I had to hit enter one more time after it authenticated and appeared to "hang". Thanks Redhead