Wireless with WPA-TKIP

[er0c13]

does anyone have a walkthrough for configuring WPA-TKIP on wireless? I have the card installed with madwifi, its working because I can see the network and I can ping the host computer and the router. I can't however access the internet because I have no idea how to configure w/ TKIP. I have wpa_supplicant installed also, but I dont know what to do with it. Here's my output from ifconfig

ath0 Link encap:ethernet HWaddr 00:18:E7:0b:XX:XX
inet addr:192.168.2.101 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80:218:e7ff:fe0b:bd17/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Rx packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Tx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carriers:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
Rx bytes:288 (288.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

eth0 Link encap:ethernet HWaddr 00:13:8F:46:XX:XX
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Rx packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Tx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carriers:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:185 Base address:0xd400

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
Rx packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Tx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carriers:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:209589 (204.6 Kib) TX bytes:209589 (204.06 Kib)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
inet addr:192.168.2.105 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 adr: ::192.168.2.105/96 Scope:Compat
inet6 addr: ::127.0.0.1/96 Scope:Unknown
UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
Rx packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Tx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carriers:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

wifi0 Link encap UNSPEC HWaddr 00-18-E7-0B-BD-17-30-3A-00-00-00-00-00-00
-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Rx packets:29292 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:142342
TX packets:63644 erorrs:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:3176802 (3.0 Mib)
Interrupt:201 Memory:dcb40000-dcb50000

and here is from my /etc/network/interfaces

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For mor information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow hotplug ath0
iface ath0 inet static
address 192.168.2.101
wireless-essid (my routers name)
netmask 255.255.255.0

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid idiot

and here is wpa_supplicant.


#
# File: wpa_supplicant
#
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=root
network={
ssid="(my ssid)"
key=mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk=(my wpa key)
}

I dont know if im trying to use to many configurations because I dont know if they link to eachother. Or if I'm missing somethign somewhere. Has anyone modified their system to work with TKIP? All help is GREATLY appreciated. Thanks.

Er0newbie

[bigtomrodney]

I'm a firm believer in the NetworkManager route. It will do all the leg work for you. The only trick is I haven't installed it within Debian as the last few distros I tried used it by default.

For the record I use madwifi on both my wifi cards and they've worked with TKIP on SUSE 10.1-10.3 and Ubuntu 6.06-7.10

[er0c13]

i tried that, didnt work. i dont know whats going on with this i think theres a configuration error somewhere. im not sure if im supposed to use iwconfig, ifconfig, wlanconfig, or something else. I also have no idea what to do in terms of modifying the wpa_supplicant file. Im relatively new to linux and all terms used as well. Wish there was a program that was specific to WPA-TKIP. i dont know what the EAS is or the TLS or any of that stuff. is there something im doing wrong based on the output messages? thanks.

[Tim_Wright]

I have an atheros card as well and I read every single tutorial on the net about setting it up. Never, in 2 weeks of beating it to death did I get it to work.

BTW, it was ubuntu 7-10

[er0c13]

I managed to get the card to scan and see the wireless network, however it still wont connect. does anyone know anything about the proto line in the wpa_supplicant file? I'll give that a try and and post the results after a few hours of p.i.t.a. configuring. If i get it to work I will post a tutorial, minus the temper tantrums of course.

[syed_salman]

I think for Internet you have to define gateway which carries your n/w data. It can be done either by

route add default gw X.X.X.X

or by defining

gateway X.X.X.X

in your /etc/network/intefaces file.

As far as TKIP is concerns did you

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

network={
        ssid="Your SSID"
        proto=WPA
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        pairwise=TKIP
        group=TKIP
        psk="your_key"
        
}

[er0c13]

FINALLY got it working. The passphrase was the problem. That was a LONG grueling process. Now all I have to do is figure out how to make it permanent. Thanks for all the help guys.