wpa_supplicant

[MercyMe]

I have knoppix and as always the best part is trying to get various distros to work with my router...
Ndiswrapper works and I have successfully installed the router the only problem is every time I try to start wpa_supplicant with ndiswrapper it errors...Is there something more I am supposed to write I believe it has something to do with the wpa_supplicant .config file I'm sure its something simple but if I can just get the encryption working then I can connect to my network :O

[Juan Pablo]

You need to set up a wpa_supplicant.conf yourself before using it, it should look like this

network={
ssid="<your essid>"
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk="<WPA key>"
}

[MercyMe]

Thats what I was looking for thanks but its a WEP network does key_mgmt="WEP"
and psk="<WEP KEY>" work? and where do I put the .conf file...

[MercyMe]

please....where do I put the config file...

[Juan Pablo]

Sorry, I forgot about this thread. I thought you were using WPA and not WEP as you detailed in the title of the message.

Read this UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo - MadWifi - Trac
, the section you want is Connecting to an AP with WEP

[MercyMe]

a) No I didn't wpa_supplicant provides support for WEP
b) can you just tell me where to put the config file you've given me everything else I need X_X...the error doesn't tell me where the config file is supposed to be...

[Juan Pablo]

Put it in any place, just tell wpa_supplicant where is the file

[MercyMe]

well I'm posting this on knoppix but, theres still one problem why does Kwlan constantly spam wlan0 is connected in the bottom right....I got it the first time....

P.S:Why do they bother to include "configuration utilities" with knoppix so far not a single one has worked for me and they have all managed to be extremely buggy especially kwlan.

[Juan Pablo]

I don't know, they have worked just fine for me