[darkfalz]

I posted this in another forum, but am getting zero replies there...hopefully someone here can help me. I am using the rt2500 drivers (via ndiswrapper) for my wireless card in my Averatec laptop. The network I am connecting to is using WPA-PSK encryption, which ndiswrapper doesn't support. So I was told to use wpa_supplicant. I have that all installed and everything, but when I run the debug mode command, I get line after line of garbage and then nothing. no connection. I have no clue what the problem is.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=305274

[a__l__a__n]

I don't mean to hijack the thread but it seems we are chasing the same rainbow here.

I'm seeking the answer to a similar (mabye the same) issue. I have used WEP on my home network for a few years (Prism-2 based pcmcia cards on my laptops). Recently I added a WPA-capable access point to my network and am trying to migrate my wireless cards over to WPA. I've flashed one of the cards (Netgear MA401) with the Linksys Prism-2 WPA update. That seemed to have updated the firmware as expected, and the card still works fine under WEP. Here's a descrition of one way to do this

http://forums.speedguide.net/showthr...77#post1609777

Here's a link showing a way to flash the card from linux:

http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/

I've attempted to modify wireless.opts to call wpa_supplicant as described in the wpa_supplicant README file, and have created /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf as directed... but something is obviously amiss.

My current situation is that the orinoco driver continues to be selected during the hardware detection phase of bootup, based on what I see from dmesg. I want to use the hostap driver in wpa_supplicant but it seems that orinoco is loaded first and hostap never gets in the game. At any rate, it appears that the card never gets as far as attempting to connect to the WPA access point.

Mine is a standard Debian sid installation (from kanotix). wpa_supplicant is included in that installation so it must be possible to get it working. I feel like I'm so close... Any pointers would be apreciated.