I have Slackware 14.0 on a Dell Inspiron B130 laptop with a Broadcom BCM4318 wireless adapter.

For the last year and a half, I've been able to connect to my DSL modem with iwconfig just fine. I was using the B43 & fwcutter drivers everyone uses for Broadcoms, and my DSL modem was using WEP OPEN encryption.

My DSL modem died and I bought a new one; this time I wanted to use WPA encryption, but I now cannot get connected with wpa_supplicant.

I have this in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ap_scan=1
network={
ssid="myssid"
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk=my_psk_as_created_by_wpa_passphrase
}

I use this sequence of commands:
ifconfig wlan0 up
wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -i wlan0 -D wext

When I enter the wpa_supp command, I get this, looping forever:
wlan0: Trying to associate with c8:3a:35:2f:11:e1 (SSID='myssid' freq=2457 MHz)
wlan0: Associated with c8:3a:35:2f:11:e1
wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=c8:3a:35:2f:11:e1 reason=0


When I was using WEP OPEN with my old DSL modem, I used this which worked fine:
iwconfig wlan0 essid "myssid" key "mykey"
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhcpcd --quiet wlan0


Is there something else special I'm missing with wpa_supplicant which is causing all those disconnects?

Did you read the stick about Broadcom and Linux: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...x-4175434970/?

Yes, I did. That, and wireless.kernel.org, was how I got it working originally on my old modem, under WEP & iwconfig. But with my new modem, under WPA, I'm having no luck with wpa_supplicant (granted, I'd never tired WPA with my old modem).

Even when I use WEP/iwconfig with my new modem, I can get it to connect successfully; or when I use the NetworkManager systray thingee under X I can get it to work with WPA/wpa_supplicant; but I'd prefer to do it via the cmdline/scripts and am having no luck that way.

Any suggestions? It obviously works; I'm just doing something wrong in my setup, I'm guessing.