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shahon

Member

Registered: 2008-07-22

Posts: 9

WPA and EEE PC 901

Hey,
I know that I should search the wiki for it and use google but I can assure you that I already did it.

My problem is, that I'm trying to get my WLAN working for nearly 1 month.
I have 3 WLANs I could connect to.

1)
SSID="TP-LINK_D45CB8"
Encryption="WPA-PSK"
Pass="AA365fhk268"

2)
SSID="Network Home"
Encryption="WEP" or WPA I'm not sure right now, I've to look it up.
Pass="3411709822591203"

3)
SSID="Isegrimm"
Encryption="WPA"
Pass="dekotuch"

2 is my repeater and 1 is my router. 3 is the network of my aunt in the second floor, which I'm also allowed to use.

My wpa_supplicant.conf is:

network={
ssid="TP-LINK_D45CB8" 
#psk="AA365fhk268"
psk="don't want to type it ^^ - it's too long"
}

network={
ssid="Isegrimm" 
#psk="dekotuch"
psk="don't want to type it ^^ - it's too long"
}

That's what I'm doing in order to get it "working":

sudo ifconfig ra0 up
sudo iwconfig ra0 essid "Isegrimm or TP-LINK..."
sudo wpa_supplicant -ira0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

Sometimes it says "No PSK configured" and "[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported" of course the Authentication timed out too -.-

Just as a quick side note... I'm not editing any channels
I hope someone can help me solving this problem.

Rgds
shahon

Last edited by shahon (2008-12-30 12:36:30)

okplayer02

Member

From: Denver, Colorado

Registered: 2008-11-24

Posts: 84

Re: WPA and EEE PC 901

have u been able to connect to any wireless network first i would suggest u try first connecting to open network and then turn on the security and go from there. otherwise it will be hard for someone to help first have to see if it working properly first

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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,911

Re: WPA and EEE PC 901

Look up netcfg in the wiki, i think you'll find it much easier than setting up wpa_supplicant manually.

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fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: WPA and EEE PC 901

Not sure exactly what sort of network you're trying to configure, but here is my configuration for a WPA2 network:

network={
  ssid="xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
  key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
  proto=WPA2
  pairwise=CCMP
  group=CCMP
  psk="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
  priority=1
}

See the default configuration file for more examples of different kinds of networks.

aesc

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Registered: 2009-03-16

Posts: 16

Re: WPA and EEE PC 901

I'm having trouble connecting with my Eee PC 901 too. I haven't tested using an open network, but, I can connect to a WEP network in the coffee shop across the street, and can't connect to the WPA network inside my apartment. I'm not ruling out the possibility that my wireless router sucks, but I can connect to it with everything else in the apartment, and I'm new to Arch Linux and to Linux wireless troubleshooting. Also, I am using Wicd as suggested by the Wiki. Where should I start looking to figure out why this doesn't work? When I try to connect to the WPA network, it just keeps trying to authenticate. There is no error message. My PSK is long but I've double-checked it and I've typed it in correctly.

filoktetes

Member

From: Skien, Norway

Registered: 2003-12-29

Posts: 287

Re: WPA and EEE PC 901

My experience so far is that connecting to WEP encrypted APs usually goes well, but unencrypted networks and WPA(2) encrypted networks sometimes work and sometimes don't. On open networks it seems to help keeping the computer switched on for a while before trying to connect.
So testing with an unencrypted network isn't always a good way to find where the problem lies...

aesc

Member

Registered: 2009-03-16

Posts: 16

Re: WPA and EEE PC 901

How do we troubleshoot this then? I am using the stock kernel with the rt2860sta module and wicd with the wext WPA supplicant driver. What's everyone else using?

Last night I tried connecting to two different open networks and wicd got stuck at "obtaining an IP address."

aesc

Member

Registered: 2009-03-16

Posts: 16

Re: WPA and EEE PC 901

Today I went through all the WPA supplicant drivers I had in a little pull-down menu in wicd. None of them worked. Two of them crashed the HAL daemon which then crashed X, or just KDM.

Does anyone have an Eee PC 901 that successfully connects to WPA or open networks?