Madwifi / wpa_supplicant on Kanotix (debian3.1)
 

hi all,
i've got my 3com 3CRDAG675 (54g pci) card using the madwifi drivers up and running (out of the box, so to speak), but am struggling with encryption...

following the instructions on the "Setting up a Client Using WPA-PSK" page at madwifi.sourceforge i have:
- set my passphrase on the wireless router
- created my simple /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file
- inserted my hex passphrase and SSID into this file, as described on the website
- executed (as root) wpa_supplicant -Bw -d -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -iath0 ifup ath0
which gives:

"Initializing interface 'ath0' conf '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 'madwifi'
Configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' -> '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
Reading configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
Priority group 0
id=0 ssid='MYSSID'
Daemonize.."

and my question is; whats next? I've run (not sure why) wpa_cli -iath0 which says
"<License stuff>
Could not connect to wpa_supplicant - re-trying" and hangs

any thoughts or pointers appreciated.
Matt

well, it works this morning. i dunno what i was upto last night; all i needed was
pump -i ath0
wpa_cli donesn't work though - but i don't know what this is for anyway.
ta!

i seem to like responding to myself...
it seems wpa_cli wasn't working because i hadn't set up an interface (in the wpa_suppliment.conf file)

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

now i can connect to the socket for wpa_supplicant and verify its all working (like i need to know!), and look at all the weird settings...

wpa_cli status verbose