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abe.sinner

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Registered: 2006-06-25

Posts: 14

Problem with WPA and ipw3945

Oi, it is me again ...

I have a problem when trying to connect to my wireless router using WPA. The wireless works as long as I leave WPA of, and when I try the same configuration with WPA on an other notebook it does work. I have loaded ipw3945 and started ipw3945d. Without WPA the following woks correct:

iwconfig eth1 essid network

but when I try the following with WPA I can't connect:

iwconfig eth1 essid yyy mode managed key restricted s:xxx

here is some more info:

whome (network profile)

#
# Network Profile
#

DESCRIPTION="Home Wireless Profile"

# Network Settings
INTERFACE=eth1
HOSTNAME=hawking

# Interface Settings (use IFOPTS="dhcp" for DHCP)
IFOPTS="dhcp"
GATEWAY=192.168.2.1

# Wireless Settings (optional)
ESSID=yyy
IWOPTS="mode managed essid $ESSID"

WIFI_INTERFACE=eth1   # use this if you have a special wireless interface
                        # that is linked to the real $INTERFACE

WIFI_WAIT=5            # seconds to wait for the wireless card to
                        # associate before bringing the interface up
USEWPA="yes"           # start wpa_supplicant with the profile
WPAOPTS="-D wext"             # use "" for normal operation or specify additional
                        # options (eg, "-D ipw")
                        # see /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf for configuration
AUTOWPA="yes"          # automatically configure WPA
PASSKEY="xxx"             # wpa passkey/phrase. for use with AUTOWPA

wpa_suppificant

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1

network={
       ssid="yyy"
       psk="xxx"
       key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
       proto=WPA
}

dmesg tells the following about eth1:
eth1: link is not ready

Can someone help me with this problem, it is all very confusing trying to find a way through all the different tools and configuration files...

<_abe>

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broch

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From: L.A. California

Registered: 2006-11-13

Posts: 975

Re: Problem with WPA and ipw3945

I have the same card.
installed knetworkmanager (I am using kde) and provided required wpa information at first start and it works.