On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 03:04:55PM +0000, Rui Paulo wrote: > > On 19 Dec 2008, at 14:19, Jordy Dickinson wrote: > >> Hey, I've never used a mailing list before, so forgive me if I'm not doing >> this right. >> >> I'm trying to set up my network card, but I keep getting this error >> message. >> I type in this: >> >> ifconfig wi0 authmode wpa >>> >> >> And I get this: >> >> ieee80211_load_module: load the wlan_xauth module by hand for now. >>> ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument >>> >> >> Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong? >> > > You're probably running a custom kernel without the wlan_xauth module built > in. Either load it as a module or compile it in your kernel. > > You may also want to use wpa_supplicant instead.
More specifically, setting "authmode wpa" with ifconfig will always be wrong (unless perhaps someday someone adds a suplicant to the kernel). If you want WPA to work, you must run wpa_supplicant. -- Brooks
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