Scanning shows WLAN but not able to connect
I just got my installtion done, drivers are installed system is showing interface.
but got in other problem, in "lwlist scanning" i see my network, signal quality level, noise level, encryption and other details. My network has WPA and TKIP. I have assigned SSID, key and AP on my card but i dont see it connected neither got IP. any ideas? Thanks. |
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This is what I did....
iwconfig eth0 ap MAC ADD iwconfig eth0 essid MyNet iwconfig eth0 key s:mykey This is the output.... [root@Linux ipw3945-1.1.0]# iwlist scanning lo Interface doesn't support scanning. sit0 Interface doesn't support scanning. eth0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:15:E9:D5:27:22 ESSID:"MyNet" Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg Mode:Master Channel:6 Encryption key:on Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s 6 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s Quality=98/100 Signal level=-27 dBm Noise level=-27 dBm IE: WPA Version 1 Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK Extra: Last beacon: 176ms ago [root@Linux ipw3945-1.1.0]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. eth0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"MyNet" Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.437 GHz Cell: 02:18:DE:04:37:8E Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:15 dBm Retry limit:15 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:my-key-here-0000-0000-00 Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality=98/100 Signal level=-27 dBm Noise level=-28 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:1 Missed beacon:0 I need ecnryption on wireless so wireless is with WPA TKIP. I installed wpa_supplicant-0.4.9, but its not working. Thanks in advance. |
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Is there any other effective way to implement WPA/TKIP on linux.
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wpa_supplicant is the only way I know of to connect to a WPA network. Once you have it setup correctly, it works great, at least it does for me.
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