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Quote:

Originally Posted by R Tanner (Post 3875026)

[...] I haven't been able to figure out how to connect to even an open network through a command prompt though. I mean I can always set the essid for the wlan0 but that doesn't connect me.

Assuming you're using wlan0... (I think this is taken from the appropriate IFNAME[x] in rc.inet1.conf)

/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 wlan0_stop
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 wlan0_start

working with WPA, wext, and wpa_supplicant

So I'm trying to figure out what I've configured wrong with my wireless...I need to set up a WPA but it won't connect...below is the output of my rc.inet1.conf and wpa_supplicant.conf and the output of /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf wlan0_restart...

First the stuff pertaining to wlan0 in rc.inet1.conf...

Code:

########

## Example config information for wlan0.  Uncomment the lines you need and fill

## in your data.  (You may not need all of these for your wireless network)

IFNAME[4]="wlan0"

IPADDR[4]=""

NETMASK[4]=""

USE_DHCP[4]="yes"

DHCP_HOSTNAME[4]="darkstar"

WLAN_WPA[4]="wpa_supplicant"

WLAN_WPADRIVER[4]="wext"

#DHCP_KEEPRESOLV[4]="yes"

#DHCP_KEEPNTP[4]="yes"

#DHCP_KEEPGW[4]="yes"

#DHCP_IPADDR[4]=""

WLAN_MODE[4]=Managed

#WLAN_RATE[4]="54M auto"

#WLAN_CHANNEL[4]="auto"

WLAN_KEY[4]="bd9552595fdcb903cb84436c566c05ec821c68803f355bd4bdb7b5d4729d4c46"

WLAN_IWPRIV[4]="set AuthMode=WPAPSK | set EncrypType=TKIP | set WPAPSK=96389dc66eaf7e6efd5b5523ae43c7925ff4df2f8b7099495192d44a774fda16"

#WLAN_WPA[4]="wpa_supplicant"

#WLAN_WPADRIVER[4]="wext"

WLAN_WPAWAIT[4]=30

This is everything in wpa_supplicant.conf

Code:

network={

        ssid="Katies Corner"

        #psk="mypassphrase"

        psk="bd9552595fdcb903cb84436c566c05ec821c68803f355bd4bdb7b5d4729d4c46"

        priority=5

}

when i run /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf wlan0_[restart, stop, start] I get absolutely nothing...any help is greatly appreciated...:)

---------------------------EDIT---------------------------------------

I forgot to say I can connect fine to networks that don't require a password...but i can't connect to networks that do

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Quote:

Originally Posted by R Tanner (Post 3881901)

Code:

########

## Example config information for wlan0.  Uncomment the lines you need and fill

## in your data.  (You may not need all of these for your wireless network)

IFNAME[4]="wlan0"

IPADDR[4]=""

NETMASK[4]=""

USE_DHCP[4]="yes"

DHCP_HOSTNAME[4]="darkstar"

WLAN_WPA[4]="wpa_supplicant"  

WLAN_WPADRIVER[4]="wext"

#DHCP_KEEPRESOLV[4]="yes"

#DHCP_KEEPNTP[4]="yes"

#DHCP_KEEPGW[4]="yes"

#DHCP_IPADDR[4]=""

WLAN_MODE[4]=Managed

#WLAN_RATE[4]="54M auto"

#WLAN_CHANNEL[4]="auto"

WLAN_KEY[4]="bd9552595fdcb903cb84436c566c05ec821c68803f355bd4bdb7b5d4729d4c46"

WLAN_IWPRIV[4]="set AuthMode=WPAPSK | set EncrypType=TKIP | set WPAPSK=96389dc66eaf7e6efd5b5523ae43c7925ff4df2f8b7099495192d44a774fda16"

#WLAN_WPA[4]="wpa_supplicant"

#WLAN_WPADRIVER[4]="wext"

WLAN_WPAWAIT[4]=30

This is everything in wpa_supplicant.conf

Code:

network={

        ssid="Katies Corner"

        #psk="mypassphrase"

        psk="bd9552595fdcb903cb84436c566c05ec821c68803f355bd4bdb7b5d4729d4c46"

        priority=5

}

looks like you're making lots of progress

1. you have uncommented lines you don't need to use in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf
comment these lines back again
WLAN_MODE[4]=Managed
WLAN_KEY[4]="bd9...
WLAN_IWPRIV[4]="set...
WPAPSK=96...
WLAN_WPAWAIT[4]=30....

2. did you name your machine "darkstar" when you installed Slack? If not, comment this out in inet1.conf
DHCP_HOSTNAME[4]="darkstar"

3. ssid="Katies Corner"

Linux/Unix doesn't like white spaces...it reads a white space as an end of a line...I would type the essid as Katies_Corner, and you would need to make that change in the configuration of your router as well.

4. psk="bd9...c46" from wpa_supplicant.conf

no quote signs required, just the number from wpa_passphrase

5. when done do
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 wlan0 restart NOT /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf restart

okay sweet thank you :) I will see if it works tonight. What if I have multiple networks I might be connecting to that have different essid's and different pass phrases? Do I just have a separate network code block in wpa_supplicant.conf? I'm guessing I would then just need to restart the interface if I change networks...

Quote:

Originally Posted by R Tanner (Post 3882876)

I don't think so. Since you seem to want to work manually, you're going to have to learn to use the iwconfig command to connect to different networks. And if you change the settings for your card to connect another place, you'll need to do it again manually when you get home. I saw a script called rc.inet1.smart a while back that looked like interesting but never putzed with it.

wicd is really the tool for connecting to different networks if you do that frequently. I use it. easy-peasy

woohooo!!!!!!

I'm connected to a network with a WPA key and am posting this from that connection :) I'm not sure how I did it, but that's beside the point. :) That was quite a challenge, but well worth it. Thank you everyone for your help. I'm marking this as solved. Everyone was very helpful and it was very much appreciated. Hopefully, as I learn more about wireless and how it works with Linux, I will be able to contribute on here and help others.

Thanks again everyone :)