Another WPA question

em21701 · 05-27-2008, 06:07 PM

OK, so I have updated my laptop to 12.1 and I am now trying once again to get WPA going with my wireless card (broadcom...Ouch). My old router is running the ever so weak WEP. My new router (wrt150N) does not even have that option (gee I wonder why). So in order to use my new router I have to finally buckle down and get this thing working. The wireless card is functioning. I have used WICD and can see the router, I can also see the router with wpa_gui. I have given up on WICD for now and am trying to get wpa_gui to work for me. So here is what is happening:

wpa_gui sees the router but won't stay connected or show and IP address.

it cycles through these messages

Status: Associating
Last Message: Trying to associate with <hex network ID>

Status: Associating
Last Message: Authentication with <hex network ID>

Status: Associated
Last Message:Associated with <ID>
Authentication: wpa-psk
Encryption: tkip
SSID: <My SSID>
BSSID: <hex ID>

Status: Associated
Last Message: Disconnected event - remove keys

Status: Disconnected
Last Message: Disconnected event - remove keys

I have followed the directions in this post about connecting with wpa_gui:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ckware-644460/

which has gotten me to the above endless loop.

Thanks in advance,
Eric

tuxrules · 05-28-2008, 10:57 AM

Just a guess here. Check the Algorithm WPA is using in the router, usually it is TKIP or AES. If it is AES, you can put CCMP in wpa_supplicant.conf in addition to TKIP.

Hope that helps...

em21701 · 05-28-2008, 03:19 PM

Thanks for the reply, the router is set to wpa-personal-tkip. There is an option for aes if that will make things go more smoothly.

em21701 · 05-28-2008, 09:00 PM

More information that may be usefull in diagnosing the problem:

dmesg after running dhcpcd wlan0:

Code:

wlan0: no ipv6 routers Present

lsmod:

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
joydev                 13120  0 
psmouse                40336  0 
snd_seq_dummy           6660  0 
snd_seq_oss            32896  0 
snd_seq_midi_event     10112  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                50256  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         10380  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            40352  0 
snd_mixer_oss          17920  1 snd_pcm_oss
ipv6                  234724  12 
pcmcia                 35884  0 
pcmcia_core            35988  1 pcmcia
lp                     13348  0 
parport_pc             27556  0 
parport                34632  2 lp,parport_pc
fuse                   45588  1 
thermal                16540  0 
video                  19472  8 
output                  6656  1 video
snd_hda_intel         289052  0 
snd_pcm                72068  2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel
battery                14340  0 
snd_timer              22532  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         11528  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
ac                      8068  0 
snd_hwdep              10756  1 snd_hda_intel
nvidia               7819296  26 
processor              32680  1 thermal
button                 10000  0 
snd                    47716  9 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
rtc_cmos               11040  0 
rtc_core               18696  1 rtc_cmos
soundcore               9824  1 snd
forcedeth              48780  0 
agpgart                30664  1 nvidia
rtc_lib                 6528  1 rtc_core
evdev                  12672  8 
serio_raw               9092  0 
i2c_nforce2             9344  0 
ndiswrapper           184732  0 
k8temp                  8192  0 
hwmon                   6276  1 k8temp
sg                     30224  0

lspci -v:

Code:

03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 1363
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
	Memory at b6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
	Capabilities: [d0] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>
	Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel <?>
	Kernel driver in use: ndiswrapper
	Kernel modules: bcm43xx, ssb