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