Re: iwn, wpa_supplicant, and wpa2 enterprise

[Sverre Froyen <sverre%viewmark.com@localhost>]

On Fri June 4 2010 08:51:02 Sverre Froyen wrote:
> On Fri June 4 2010 01:45:22 Roy Marples wrote:
> > On 06/04/10 02:54, Sverre Froyen wrote:
> > > I see a "iwn0: cannot assign link-local address" message on the
> > > console, which could be from a dhcpcd triggered iwn_ioctl call that
> > > fails because of the rev 1.94 change, thereby causing a dhcpcd
> > > failure.
> > 
> > That's not a dhcpcd message. Probably refers to the link-local IPv6
> > address.
> 
> You're correct. It's not caused by dhcpcd. I instrumented the iwn driver to
> list the failed ioctls. There are two. The first one is from
> wpa_supplicant:
> 
>       iwn0: ioctl while busy: 0xc0706984

This looks like SIOCINITIFADDR

> (the hex number is the command). This is followed by
> 
>       iwn0: cannot assign link-local address
> 
> and another failed ioctl from dhcpcd:
> 
>       iwn0: ioctl while busy: 0xc0906911

and this is SIOCGIFFLAGS

if my parsing is right.

Sverre