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Owen Tuz

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Registered: 2010-09-16

Posts: 12

[Solved] WPA connection problems - network was WEP encrypted.

Hi all, and thanks in advance for reading.

Tl;dr for the below: My card seems to work, but won't associate with the router using either netcfg or wpa_supplicant and I have no idea why. I have no graphical system to work from as yet.

Basically, I've just installed my Arch system, and I'm trying to get the wireless working. I have two wireless cards, one internal (Atheros) and one USB (preferred - it's a Belkin F5D9050, v3). My router - a BT HomeHub - uses WPA-PSK encryption.

For the moment, I'm trying to get the Belkin card - wlan1 - working as it gives better reception at home, so I'll use that in the examples, but I've had the same results with both so far.

Running

iwlist wlan1 scan

shows my network, so I think the card itself is working ok.

My netcfg profile reads:

CONNECTION='wireless'
INTERFACE='wlan1'
SECURITY='wpa'
ESSID='BTHomeHub2-2J6S'
KEY='...'
IP='dhcp'
TIMEOUT=120 // Large timeout I know, but apparently it can make a difference.

When attempting to connect with netcfg, I get the message 'WPA Authentication/Association failed'.

Trying with wpa_supplicant.conf as below:

network={
       ssid="BTHomeHub2-2J6S"
       proto=RSN // I've also tried WPA2
       key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
       pairwise=CCMP TKIP
       group=CCMP TKIP 
       psk=[my passphrase as converted to hex by wpa_passphrase]
}

Running

wpa_supplicant -dd -B -Dwext -iwlan1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

produces output similar to this.

I'm stuck. Any thoughts? Any and all help is appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
(Edited for stupid title)

Last edited by Owen Tuz (2010-09-19 23:17:16)

Owen Tuz

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Registered: 2010-09-16

Posts: 12

Re: [Solved] WPA connection problems - network was WEP encrypted.

Er, solved. Turns out someone set it to WEP, and now I feel stupid. There are other problems, but I'll get back to you if I can't fix those.

loafer

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Re: [Solved] WPA connection problems - network was WEP encrypted.

Please change the subject to something meaningful.  If the post turns out to be erroneous that is no reason to obfuscate.

Last edited by loafer (2010-09-17 19:57:32)

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Owen Tuz

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Re: [Solved] WPA connection problems - network was WEP encrypted.

No problem. Not sure it'll help many people, though.

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Re: [Solved] WPA connection problems - network was WEP encrypted.

If you inspect

iwlist $interface scan

output you can see which ones are WEP or WPA(2):

WEP:

          Cell 04 - Address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
                    Channel:6
                    Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
                    Quality=21/70  Signal level=-89 dBm  
                    Encryption key:on
                    ESSID:"WiFi 13"
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
                              9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                    Bit Rates:24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Mode:Master
                    Extra:tsf=0000013713e511a8
                    Extra: Last beacon: 2493ms ago

WPA2 Personal:

          Cell 03 - Address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
                    Channel:48
                    Frequency:5.24 GHz (Channel 48)
                    Quality=65/70  Signal level=-45 dBm  
                    Encryption key:on
                    ESSID:"Zeus 802.11n"
                    Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
                              36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Mode:Master
                    Extra:tsf=0000011fcd6018a8
                    Extra: Last beacon: 60ms ago
                    IE: Unknown: 000C5A657573203830322E31316E
                    IE: Unknown: 01088C129824B048606C
                    IE: Unknown: 030130
                    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
                        Group Cipher : CCMP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK

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Owen Tuz

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Registered: 2010-09-16

Posts: 12

Re: [Solved] WPA connection problems - network was WEP encrypted.

Thanks, that's pretty useful to know.