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Joffer

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Registered: 2006-01-12

Posts: 69

Need help with ipw2200 & wpa (kernel 2.6.15)

Anyone care to share a working (laptop) config with ipw2200 and wpa? I've got a hp laptop with a rtl8139 nic and ipw2200 wireless and my kernel (2.6.15-x) and entire system is updated as of today (2006-03-03). I've installed wpa_supplicant-0.4.7-2.

lanrat

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From: Poland

Registered: 2003-10-28

Posts: 1,274

Re: Need help with ipw2200 & wpa (kernel 2.6.15)

I'm using i915 based laptop (toshiba) configured for WPA2-PSK with AES (ccmp) encryption. My wireless router is linksys wrt54gs with dd-wrt firmware. It's configured to accept only WPA2-PSK+AES, my wireless card MAC address and G-only mode. I think this is the maximum I can have with it. It works pretty well IMHO.

in /etc/rc.conf:

MODULES=(!8139cp !8139too !ipw2200 8139too ipw2200 ieee80211_crypt_ccmp ieee80211_crypt_tkip ...ohter modules....)
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network ...other daemons...)

HOSTNAME="notebook"
lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="eth0 192.168.xxx.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.xxx.255"
INTERFACES=(lo)
gateway="default gw 192.168.xxx.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)
NET_PROFILES=(wireless !wired)

in /etc/network-profiles/wireless

DESCRIPTION="Wireless config"
INTERFACE=eth1
HOSTNAME="notebook"
IFOPTS="dhcp"
ESSID=mywireless_ap_essid
IWOPTS="mode managed essid $ESSID channel 3"
USEWPA="yes"
WPAOPTS="-D wext"

in /etc/network-profiles/wired (I'm not using this usually. It's here in case of emergency so it's disabled by default):

DESCRIPTION="Wired config"
INTERFACE=eth0
HOSTNAME="notebook"
IFOPTS="192.168.xxx.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.xxx.255"
GATEWAY=192.168.xxx.1
DOMAIN=mydomain.pl

in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
    ssid="mywireless_ap_essid"
    scan_ssid=1
    psk="my_super_secret_wpa_psk_password"
    key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
    proto=WPA2
    pairwise=CCMP
    group=CCMP
    priority=9
}

These configs plus this little change to /usr/bin/netcfg script to avoid timeouts during boot.