Linksys WRT54G, Orinoco Gold, wpa_supplicant

sovietpower · 10-21-2005, 02:19 PM

I have a Dell laptop, an Orinoco Gold 802.11b, wpa_supplicant installed, and a Linksys WRT54G Router. I cannot get them to work correctly. The card works fine without encryption on my router. wpa_supplicant says something about an operation not being permitted even when using the madwifi drivers which in the first case I don't know why I installed considering the fact that the orinoco_cs drivers work fine and yes I have the latest orinoco_cs drivers. My wpa_supplicant.conf is perfectly fine but still I cannot get it to work any ideas???

Yalla-One · 10-21-2005, 03:47 PM

Hi,

Have you tried Alien's scripts from http://www.slackware.com/~alien/rc_scripts/ ? They do a pretty good job on getting wpa_supplicant to work.

If not, I recommend trying to start wpa_supplicant manually in non-daemon mode with double verbose to check the error messages - does it successfully find the accesspoint, is it able to bind to it, etc etc...

kaon · 10-21-2005, 09:50 PM

From your signature, I guess you are using slackware 10.1. WPA supported in 10.2, so you should upgrade the wireless tool packages (upgrade the network scripts) from the links that Yalla-One provided.

FYI, you could also refer to the following url:
http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/dokuw...wpa_encryption

Hope this helps.

sovietpower · 10-23-2005, 01:33 AM

My interface comes up as eth0 instead of ath0. wpa_supplicant doesn't negotiate with the access point for some reason. I upgraded my wireless-tools rebuilt the madwifi drivers and the wpa_supplicant. I was wondering if it was kinda router side configuration. The route is configured using static-ips, it does broadcast its ESSID and the encryption is WPA-Personal, TKIP encryption. My wpa_supplicant.conf file looks fine.

Yalla-One · 10-23-2005, 02:14 AM

Did you download alien's rc-scripts from slackware.com/~alien ?

If your card shows up as eth0 instead of ath0, make sure you edit your /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf so that it says names the card(s) correctly.

Do you have any wired interfaces on the PC ? If so I recommend giving the wired interface the name eth0 and the wireless ath0. Make sure your inet1.conf is fully configured to your hardware and remove the entries you don't need.

If it still doesn't work, please post your iwconfig and ifconfig output here as a starting point for further trouble shooting

-Y1

sovietpower · 10-23-2005, 03:09 AM

Well if I have encryption off it works fine here is the output of my lspci, lsmod, iwconfig, ifconfig

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
00:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02)

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
snd_es1968             27236  0 
snd_mpu401_uart         6208  1 snd_es1968
snd_rawmidi            20384  1 snd_mpu401_uart
orinoco_cs             10952  1 
orinoco                42160  1 orinoco_cs
hermes                  6048  2 orinoco_cs,orinoco
pcmcia                 31504  5 orinoco_cs
yenta_socket           22636  6 
rsrc_nonstatic         10048  1 yenta_socket

Code:

eth0      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"KGB"  Nickname:"yak-9"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:13:10:43:ED:5C   
          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Sensitivity:1/3  
          Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=00/92  Signal level=-53 dBm  Noise level=-93 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:5
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:2D:1C:91:D1  
          inet addr:192.168.1.7  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:736 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:802 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:405965 (396.4 Kb)  TX bytes:162570 (158.7 Kb)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x100 

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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

It has something to do with wpa_supplicant not associating with my router, I can't seem to build wpa_supplicant with the hermes driver support either although I did have the madwifi drivers working but once again will not associate