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Sorry for the long post. Also, I have posted this to the Zenwalk forums, but I'm hoping to get additional assistance.

I am a newbie to Linux. I've been playing with it for a while, but not regularly. I bought a Sony Vaio VGN-FS743/W and decided to dual boot. I decided on Zenwalk because it's Slackware based and installs with the 2.6 kernel. The laptop has a Intel 2200 wireless adapter and I'm using a Linksys WRT54G wireless router and a cable modem.

I was able to get wireless up and running by installing the ieee80211 network stack, the driver for the card and the firmware update. I can get online if there is no security in use. But since security is part of the reason I am switching to Linux, this won't cut it. I then configured the router to use WPA with TKIP. I then followed the instructions on the Intel Pro Wireless 2200 + Slackware tutorial for the WPA portion. It seemed to install correctly. I then do

Code:

ifconfig eth1 up

wpa_supplicant -ieth1 -Dwext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf &

I think I get connected to my wireless, but after about 5 minutes, I start receiving messages like this.

Code:

ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument

ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument

recvfrom(netlink): No buffer space available

ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument

l2_packet_receive - recvfrom: Network is down

IOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument

l2_packet_receive - recvfrom: Network is down

ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument

WPA: No assoc_wpa_ie set - cannot generate msg 2/4

CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys

CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys

Trying to associate with 00:14:bf:8d:6c:cd (SSID='fritznet' freq=0 MHz)

Associated with 00:14:bf:8d:6c:cd

WPA: Failed to set PTK to the driver.

CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys

CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys

I do an iwconfig and get the following

Code:

lo        no wireless extensions.



eth0      no wireless extensions.



eth1      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"fritznet"  Nickname:"zenwalk"

          Mode:Managed  Channel:11  Access Point: 00:14:BF:8D:6B:CD  

          Bit Rate=54Mb/s  Tx-Power=20 dBm  

          Retry limit:7  RTS thr:off  Fragment thr:off

          Encryption key:off

          Power Management:off

          Link Quality:91/100  Signal level:-37 dBm  Noise level:-83 dBm

          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0

          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:128  Missed beacon:2

I also attempted to get an IP address from the router, but get the following from an ifconfig.

Code:

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:CE:29:33:1A  

          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:4633 errors:0 dropped:140 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:839 errors:0 dropped:8 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 

          RX bytes:1263 (1.2 Kb)  TX bytes:4088 (3.9 Kb)

          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8000 Memory:b0106000-b0106fff 



lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

          RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 

          RX bytes:1624 (1.5 Kb)  TX bytes:1624 (1.5 Kb)

In case you need it, here's my wpa_supplicant.conf file.

Code:

network={

        ssid="fritznet"

        scan_ssid=1

        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK

        proto=WPA

        pairwise=TKIP

        group=TKIP

        #psk="mySecretKey"

        psk=mySecretKeyBytes

        priority=2

}

Thanks in advance for any help.

F_M