wpa encryption

ktc0ut · 05-27-2005, 04:35 AM

hi,

i recently set up the wireless network to use wpa-psk. after i made the settings to the wlan0 file i rebooted and it was successful, i was getting a perfect connection, after which i rebooted again and i was not getting a connection at all, i didnt make any changes at all to any files, basically the reboot caused the problem, i was wondering if this has happened to anyone else or if someone could lead me into the right direction.

crazibri · 05-28-2005, 12:44 PM

How are you setting up the WPA encryption? Meaning what program are you using?

WPA built into Suse 9.3, WPA_supplicant (like from linuxant.com), or what?

ktc0ut · 05-28-2005, 04:11 PM

i am using wpa_supplicant

crazibri · 05-28-2005, 05:32 PM

Is it WPA_Supplicant from Suse 9.3 install or Linuxant.com or where did you install it from?

ktc0ut · 05-29-2005, 07:54 PM

its from the suse 9.3 install

crazibri · 05-30-2005, 10:33 AM

Well being that I just installed Suse 9.3, I'm still getting familiar w/ the WPA gui. I got the WPA supplicant to work but only via command line because I've used wpa_supplicant in earlier versions of Suse. You need to create your .conf file also.

as root:

wpa_passphrase <essid> <passphrase>

enter the output of that to /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

then just wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

it worked like a charm. If I figure it out on the gui side of things, I'll let you know. Hope this helps