Hi Everyone,

I recently upgraded my Slackware 10.2 packages to those in Slackware 11. After a kernel recompile, I can't connect to my AP anymore. WPA_Supplicant keeps trying to associate with the AP but authentication times out and does it in a tight loop:

I noticed that it only fails to authenticate on networks that use WPA; I can connect successfully to ones that do not have encryption. I thought maybe it was the absence of cryptographic modules but the required ones are present.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I'd post a log of some sort but wpa_supplicant gets run at boot up and I'm not sure how to get a log.

For someone else's future reference:

I managed to obtain a log by killing the existing instance of wpa_supplicant running in the background and running it again from the shell. The output gets printed to stdout.

Turns out, startup scripts get changed after the upgrade along with the command for starting wpa_supplicant. Like most problems with wpa_supplicant, I was using the wrong driver for the card. If no driver is specified, as was the case with the new start up scripts, it defaults to using the Hostap driver. I have an Intel wireless card and changed the wpa driver accordingly.

wpa_supplicant is run from /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless and you can specify the driver in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf by adding WLAN_WPADRIVER[i]="drivername" (where i is the interface number of your wireless card) to the appropriate block of code.

Hi,

Are you using the ipw2100 by any chance?

If you are could you please tell me where to download the file and what I actually have to do to set it up?

I am having difficulties connecting to my own wireless router.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers

I'm using ipw2200. Not quite sure which file you're referring to but but the ipw2100 package can be found here: http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/. And here's a good how-to: http://jrblevin.freeshell.org/linux/ipw2100/.