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WPA-PSK Wireless in RHEL5, How?
Hello.
I got a laptop running Red Hat EL 5 running a 2.6.18-53.el5 kernel. It has the Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Wireless card which uses Ipw2200 driver. After two long days of searching/trying I still can not get this laptop to connect to the company's wireless router. The network manager GUI and command line commands all fail. I must be missing something. I been searching all over the place and doing all sorts of stuff with wpa_supplicant, network confs, etc. If someone can help me out or point me to where i can find it, I will be grateful. I may be just doing something in the wrong order... Stuff installed for the card: ipw2200 Version: 1.2.0 ipw2200 firmware v 3.0 Ieee802.11, was already installed with the system wpa_supplicant v0.4.8 The wireless card is detected and it does see two routers, here is the one I need to connect too. Iwlist Report on router: Cell 02 - Address: a mac address ESSID:"GUESTS" Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg Mode:Master Channel:1 Encryption key:on Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s 11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s Quality=77/100 Signal level=-52 dBm IE: WPA Version 1 Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK Extra: Last beacon: 16ms ago /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file: ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=rd network={ ssid="GUESTS" key_mgmt=WPA-PSK proto=WPA psk="*" pairwise=TKIP CCMP group=TKIP CCMP WEP104 WEP40 priority=5 } /etc/sysconf/wpa_supplicant file: # wlan0 and wifi0 # INTERFACES="-iwlan0 -iwifi0" # wireless card is on eth1 INTERFACES="-ieth1" # ndiswrapper and prism # DRIVERS="-Dndiswrapper -Dprism" # Driver for card is ipw2200, uses wext DRIVERS="-Dwext" /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth1: # Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection DEVICE=eth1 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=dhcp HWADDR=a mac address NETMASK= DHCP_HOSTNAME= IPADDR= DOMAIN= TYPE=Wireless USERCTL=yes IPV6INIT=no PEERDNS=yes ESSID= CHANNEL=1 MODE=Managed RATE=Auto I tried using the network manager, it sees the wireless networks and detects that it is a WPA encryption but login always fails. I am typing the passphrase into the login prompt in normal ascii form, its not in hex/encrypted. I did a bunch of stuff with wpa_supplicant, the iwX commands and ifX commands. But no results were noticed. If any other information is needed, just ask. Thanks. |
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