wpa_supplicant won't Authenticate with Airport Express

slyck · 05-21-2007, 04:10 AM

Hello

I've been trying to get my PC (running Slackware 11.0) to connect to my Airport Express (Apple Base Station V6.3) however it does not authenticate.

When I issue the following restart command:

Code:

/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart

I get the following output in /var/log/messages:

Code:

WPA authentication did not complete, try running '/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 wlan0_start' in a few seconds.

When I try to connect through wpa_gui, the following is output to the Event History:

Code:

Trying to associate with <mybssid> (SSID='myssid' freq=2437 MHz)
Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.

When I scan in wpa_gui, the Airport Express appears in the Scan results window as:

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SSID       BSSID        frequency  signal flags
<myssid>   <mybssid>    2437       186    [WPA-PSK-TKIP][WPA2-PSK-TKIP+CCMP]

My wpa_supplicant.conf file is as follows:

Code:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
update_config=1

network={
        ssid="myssid"
        psk=mypsk
        proto=RSN
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        pairwise=TKIP
}

My wireless network card is a NetComm NP5420 and i am using ndiswrapper.

My AirPort Network is configured with WPA2 Personal and also is set for MAC filtering. I have tried broadcasting/not broadcasting the SSID and also enabling/disabling MAC filtering however I still get the same problem.

Any suggestions as to what I may be missing would be greatly appreciated.

Brian1 · 05-22-2007, 04:58 PM

Couple of things.
Try this:
pairwise=TKIP CCMP

Also seems to see both WPA and WPA2. Set proto=WPA for WPA mode. proto=RSN for WPA2.

Brian

slyck · 05-30-2007, 04:13 AM

Thanks Brian

I tried:

Code:

proto=WPA
pairwise=TKIP

No luck immediately however when I broadcasted the SSID, Bingo! I seem to remember reading somewhere else that somebody had not been able to get their configuration working until they broadcasted the SSID. I had tried that but not with the particular configuration above.

Thanks again.