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man_linux 10-30-2006 05:27 PM

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.

Hangdog42 10-31-2006 11:02 AM

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I have assigned SSID, key and AP on my card
How are your assigning them? Any error messages? What do your logs say? What are the outputs of iwconfig and ifconfig? We need details.

man_linux 11-01-2006 10:04 AM

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.

Hangdog42 11-01-2006 11:38 AM

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I installed wpa_supplicant-0.4.9, but its not working.
Ok, that is where we need to focus because I don't think that iwconfig can handle WPA encryption without wpa_supplicant. The driver is certainly working because you are associated with your access point (however it would be useful to know what driver and distro you're using). I bet if you temporarily turned off encryption, you could get a working connection.

man_linux 11-09-2006 12:37 PM

Is there any other effective way to implement WPA/TKIP on linux.

Chromezero 11-09-2006 12:44 PM

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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