[driverloader] wpa_supplicant howto?

mmmgrrrl mmmgrrrl at pacbell.net
Sat Jan 15 09:41:31 EST 2005


Hello... Maybe this is your problem : I've only been able to get the driverloader
and WPA on RHL 9 to work with the router 'Broadcast SSID' enabled.  
See my previous post 
 http://www.linuxant.com/pipermail/driverloader/2004q4/001666.html.
Linuxant support emailed me in Oct 2004 and confirmed that this limitation 
did still exist.  I originally discovered this problem and reported in this
 forum in Jan. 2004 
 http://www.linuxant.com/pipermail/driverloader/2004q1/000657.html .
Also resulted in said info being added to
 http://people.zoy.org/~hpreg/wifi/. 


Karol Krizka wrote:
> Hello,
> I have just downloaded and installed your driverloader 2.22 on my
> Gentoo Linux (on Presrio R3000). It installed without problems and
> loaded my driver (Broadcom). But now I can't get it working with
> wpa_supplicant (I downloaded the newest stable version from their
> site).
> 
> This is what I did so far:
> zorka root # iwconfig 
> lo        no wireless extensions.
> 
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> eth1      no wireless extensions.
> 
> sit0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> eth2      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"dunco"  Nickname:"unknown"
>           Mode:Managed  Bit Rate=54Mb/s   Tx-Power=25 dBm   
>           RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>           Encryption key:off
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> 
> zorka root # cat /etc/driverloader/dldr_wpa_supplicant.eth2.conf
> network={
>         ssid="dunco"
>         proto=WPA
>         key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
>         pairwise=TKIP
>         group=TKIP
>       psk=<generated with wpa_passphrase>
> }
> 
> zorka root # wpa_supplicant -i eth2 -c
> /etc/driverloader/dldr_wpa_supplicant.eth2.conf -dd
> Configuration file '/etc/driverloader/dldr_wpa_supplicant.eth2.conf'
> -> '/etc/driverloader/dldr_wpa_supplicant.eth2.conf'
> Reading configuration file '/etc/driverloader/dldr_wpa_supplicant.eth2.conf'
> Line: 1 - start of a new network block
> SSID - hexdump_ascii(len=5):
>      64 75 6e 63 6f                                    dunco           
> proto: 0x1
> key_mgmt: 0x2
> pairwise: 0x8
> group: 0x8
> PSK - hexdump(len=32): 21 fd b0 32 b1 bb 3a f4 97 40 3c 08 27 fb 0b 68
> bb 41 e8 c9 b5 78 51 8a bd 81 84 9d ed 92 73 80
> Priority group 0
>    id=0 ssid='dunco'
> wpa_driver_hostap_set_wpa: enabled=1
> wpa_driver_hostap_set_key: alg=none key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_hostap_set_key: alg=none key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_hostap_set_key: alg=none key_idx=2 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_hostap_set_key: alg=none key_idx=3 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_hostap_set_countermeasures: enabled=0
> wpa_driver_hostap_set_drop_unencrypted: enabled=1
> Setting scan request: 0 sec 100000 usec
> Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID)
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8b19 len=24
> ioctl[SIOCGIWSCAN]: No data available
> Scan results: -1
> Failed to get scan results - try scanning again
> 
> Does anyone know of a HOWTO on the net that explains how to set it up?



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