hi,

i am desperately trying to configure my debian (testing/unstable) pc for wlan access to a linksys wrt54g router via a netgear wg111v2 usb stick.

the router is configured properly, i have already two pcs online.

ndiswrapper is installed and configured, the driver added, no errors there.

the automatic usb detection works fine, no problem there. but i'm miserably failing to configure the wlan interface with iwconfig (wireless tools installed) - i just get "adding encryption key 1 failed". whatever property i try to change (ap, key, etc.), i just doesn't seem to work - everytime i display 'iwconfig wlan0' it looks the same.

for the router is configured for WPA, i installed and configured wpa_supplicant. again, i get an error saying "no keys configured", then i get a timeout.

the router is, however, visible to the pc - if i do a scan, i can "see" it.

please, if anybody has an idea, tell me!
i can provide further configs, logs etc. on request.

thanks a lot in advance!
nora

Hey,

Could you post your /etc/network/interfaces file and the output of iwconfig

Chris

/etc/network/interfaces:

iwconfig

cheers,
nora

Hey,

It looks like your card is all set up and should work, could turn off the wpa on the router for a bit and see if the card will connect.

Your interfaces file hasn't got any wpa- commands in it, so are you using wpa-supplicant? If you are using it have you read through the readme available here:

http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-wpa/w...ile&rev=0&sc=0

As you can see from the above the ndiswrapper has to use the wext driver back-end for ndiswrapper versions >= 1.16, so what version of ndiswrapper are you using?

Try and set up the wpa-supplicant, as an example setup for my interfaces file contains:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
pre-up ifconfig eth0 up
pre-up ifconfig eth0 down
pre-up ifconfig eth0 up
pre-up ifconfig eth0 down
wpa-ssid MyESSID
wpa-psk MyPSK
ifconfig eth0 up

I can't remember what all the pre-up stuff is about but as you can see you need the wpa- commands to get wpa-supplicant working, I think...

Once you've set up wpa do:

ifup -v wlan0

You should get a better idea of what going on from that, post it here if possible - might help.

Good Luck

Chris

Hi,

I spent the last two weeks puzzling around, but without any satisfying results

Thanks for the URL - I didn't know this specific document but similar ones. Nevertheless, it contained some useful hints.

I'm using the latest version, I guess, 1.28. Accordingly, I configured my /etc/network/interfaces with wpa-driver wext.


Sadly, WLAN doesn't work yet.

If I do 'iwlist wlan0 scanning' I get all the details about my access point, so it "can be seen".

When executing wpa_supplicant with some basic options, the access point cannot be found and I just receive timeouts.

So, maybe any more hints?

Thanks, Nora

Can you post your wpa_supplicant.conf file and the command you're using to start wpa_supplicant?

I assume you've tried connecting with all router encryption/security (WEP, WPA, etc) turned off? This is usually a good way to "half-split" the problem. If you can't connect with no security, that problem needs to be solved before worrying about security settings.

Whats the output of ifup -vv wlan0