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Fleet

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Registered: 2008-07-09

Posts: 33

[SOLVED] 4965AGN connection problem

Hello all,

I just Installed Arch on another laptop. I followed the "Wireless Setup" wiki page and chose the manual setup. The router I try to access is using WPA2. I started the interface and issued:

wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B -d

and I got:

Initializing interface 'wlan0' conf '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 'wext' ctrl_interface 'N/A' bridge 'N/A'
Configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' -> '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
Reading configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
ctrl_interface='DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel'
Priority group 0
   id=0 ssid='universi'
WEXT: cfg80211-based driver detected
SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=22 WE(source)=21 enc_capa=0xf
  capabilities: key_mgmt 0xf enc 0xf flags 0x0
netlink: Operstate: linkmode=1, operstate=5
Own MAC address: 00:13:e8:66:ab:f7
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=2 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=3 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_countermeasures
RSN: flushing PMKID list in the driver
Setting scan request: 0 sec 100000 usec
WPS: UUID based on MAC address - hexdump(len=16): e4 ba be ff 02 c2 52 ec af 46 96 4b 56 f6 eb 73
EAPOL: SUPP_PAE entering state DISCONNECTED
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
EAPOL: KEY_RX entering state NO_KEY_RECEIVE
EAPOL: SUPP_BE entering state INITIALIZE
EAP: EAP entering state DISABLED
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
Using existing control interface directory.
ctrl_interface_group=10 (from group name 'wheel')
Added interface wlan0
Daemonize..

"iwconfig wlan0" tells me that the card isn't associated with the accesspoint. I would be grateful if you could offer me any clue to what's wrong.

Sincerely, Fleet

Last edited by Fleet (2010-12-18 15:54:26)

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Re: [SOLVED] 4965AGN connection problem

How did you generate your wpa_supplicant.conf file? And what kind of setup are we talking about? Is this a simple WPA2 PSK setup or a Radius server?

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Fleet

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Registered: 2008-07-09

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Re: [SOLVED] 4965AGN connection problem

Hi,

I generated the wpa_supplicant.conf with

wpa_passphrase mywireless "secretpassphrase" > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

It's a simple WPA-PSK setup. The router's web interface says "WPA-PSK" not WPA2-PSK. My bad, but it makes no difference in the wiki page I followed.

Fleet

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Registered: 2008-07-09

Posts: 33

Re: [SOLVED] 4965AGN connection problem

I just solved my problem. I changed "proto=RSN" to "proto=WPA" in wpa_supplicant.conf. I had taken the line from the wiki (WPA/WPA2-PSK setup). For future reference my config file now looks like:

ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel
network={
        ssid="universi"
        proto=WPA
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        pairwise=CCMP TKIP
        group=CCMP TKIP
        psk=<psk value>
}