[Angstrom-devel] Trying to fix the Angstrom Release 2007.12r13 WPA problem: could not allocate crypto API arc4

Helge Deller deller at gmx.de
Tue May 20 00:48:05 CEST 2008


Matthew Swabey wrote:
> Attempted to address this by building into the kernel crypto-api, AES,
> micheal-mic and arc4 however it spat back at me:
> 
> Size is 1303712
> FATAL: This kernel is too big for your PXA Zaurus and will destroy data
> if you flash it. Please reduce the size of the kernel by making more of
> it modular.
> 
> Since the vanilla release kernel clearly has modules bundled with them,
> unless someone can explain what the size limit is and how to avoid it I
> may look at wpa_supplicant and try to divine if it is failing to use them.
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated here,

I had it once working, just need to find time to try again...

Nevertheless, could you just try CONFIG_CRYPTO_ALGAPI=y and the others 
you mentioned above as modules ? I think this was what it did for me...

Helge



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