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semperfiguy

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Registered: 2007-12-03

Posts: 224

[Solved] WPA encryption..

Ok, I just installed arch last night and I love it so far.  I got X configured no problem, alsa was a little trickier but I got it this morning, not too much work.   right now I am just connected to an unencrypted network because I couldn't get WPA to work.  In ubuntu I ran the commands:

ifdown eth1
ifconfig eth1
dhclient -r
wpa_supplicant -B -w -D wext -i eth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf 
ifconfig eth1 up
ifup eth1

and my network would work fine.  But now I have no ifdown and ifup commands and when I try to run the previous commands minus those two, I get network unreachable from ping google.com.

My /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file looks like this:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

network={
        ssid="MYNETWORKNAME"
        psk="MYPASSWORD"
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        proto=WPA
        pairwise=TKIP
}

Last edited by semperfiguy (2007-12-28 14:55:51)

WhiteMagic

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Registered: 2007-03-01

Posts: 85

Re: [Solved] WPA encryption..

You may want to give the new netcfg scripts a try. They should take care of setting your cards options as well as the wpa settings. The thread about the script can be found here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=39505.

semperfiguy

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Registered: 2007-12-03

Posts: 224

Re: [Solved] WPA encryption..

Thank you, that worked following the wiki instructions.
It hung a little longer in the networking section on bootup, but it works and I don't think theres a way to streamline it anymore.  Thank you for your help.  I am using ndiswrapper with wpa, so I guess i should add that to the wiki testing section?

sjb933

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Registered: 2007-01-18

Posts: 113

Re: [Solved] WPA encryption..

You can also use

ifconfig eth1 down

or

ifconfig eth1 up

Those accomplish the same thing.

-Shane

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: [Solved] WPA encryption..

Thank you, that worked following the wiki instructions.
It hung a little longer in the networking section on bootup, but it works and I don't think theres a way to streamline it anymore.  Thank you for your help.  I am using ndiswrapper with wpa, so I guess i should add that to the wiki testing section?

To speed up the time, try enabling SCAN="yes" or dropping TIMEOUT=

You could also background net-profiles with "@net-profiles" -- however be careful if you have network dependent services starting after it.

Feel free to add to the wiki, the more positive reports the better.