Hello,

I have a centrino laptop with a 2200bg eth1 network interface. I downloaded the firmware and the card is correctly detected by Slackware 11.

I want to setup a WPA connection at home. I installed wpa_supplicant package from Alien’s website and I followed the instructions on his wiki.

Here is what I did:
Edit wpa_supplicant.conf so it look like this:
...
network={
scan_ssid=0
ssid="XXX"
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=CCMP TKIP WEP104 WEP40
#psk="XXX"
psk=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
}
...

Then:
chmod 600 /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

And finally edit rc.inet1.conf:
...
# Config information for eth1:
IPADDR[1]=""
NETMASK[1]=""
USE_DHCP[1]="yes"
DHCP_HOSTNAME[1]=""
WLAN_WPA[1]="wpa_supplicant"
WLAN_WPADRIVER[1]="wext"
...

When I do:
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 eth1_restart
I get:
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: eth1 is 'Any ESSID'
dhcpcd: MAC address = 00:0e:35:47:09:fa
and iwconfig result:
eth1 unassociated ESSIDff/any Nickname:"abi"
Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate=0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

What am I doing wrong? rc.inet1 doesn't seem to see wpa_supplicant...

Thank you,

carl

You don't mention these lines of wpa_supplicant.conf:
I assume the "...." means that these are indeed in the file?

The "eth1 is 'Any ESSID'" message is harmless. If you want to know if, and how, wpa_supplicant is loaded and functional, you can run the command
and you should get back an overview of the WPA connection parameters. If you get
instead, then wpa_supplicant is not running.

I use the default settings in wpa_supplicant.conf:
# This line enables the use of wpa_cli which is used by rc.wireless
# if possible (to check for successful association)
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
# By default, only root (group 0) may use wpa_cli
ctrl_interface_group=0
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1

wpa_cli status gives me:
Selected interface 'eth1'
wpa_state=SCANNING

When I do:
wpa_passphrase YOURSSID passphrase
to create my settings, I need to put the passphrase between "" because of the spaces right?

Thank you,

carl

I tried the debugging, "wpa_supplicant -dw -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dwext -ieth1" gives me this:

Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID)
Scan timeout - try to get results
Received 224 bytes of scan results (1 BSSes)
Scan results: 1
Selecting BSS from priority group 2
0: 00:13:46:f5:ae:04 ssid='abi-lan' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=26 caps=0x11
skip - SSID mismatch
Selecting BSS from priority group 0
0: 00:13:46:f5:ae:04 ssid='abi-lan' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=26 caps=0x11
skip - no WPA/RSN proto match
No suitable AP found.
Setting scan request: 5 sec 0 usec

Kwifimanager tells me that the name of the ssid is really "abi-lan" ... what's wrong???