using buffalo pci wireless network card and WPA encryption in suse linux 10

**danielwa2** · 11-10-2005

I have newly installed suse linux 10 and need to connect to my wireless network which uses DHCP to allocate ip addresses and WPA-PSK encryption. I have tried to configure linux to find this network using Yast2 network card settings and KWiFiManager, it finds the local wireless networks but when I put the passkey into KWiFiManager, it simply just will not connect. the output from iwconfig is:

Code:

wlan0   IEEE 802.11g    ESSID&#58;"Madness"   Nickname&#58;"Unknown"
           mode&#58;Managed    Bit Rate=54Mb/s    Tx-Power&#58;0dBm
           RTS  thr&#58;off    Fragment  thr&#58;off
           Encryption key&#58;off
           Power Management&#58;off
           Link Quality&#58;0   Signal Level&#58;0    Noise level&#58;0
           Rx invalid neid&#58;0    Rx invalid crypt&#58;0    Rx invalid frag&#58;0
           Tx excessive retries&#58;0   Invalid misc&#58;0   Missed beacon&#58;0

I would appreciate if anyone has any ideas, thanks.
Daniel

**AlexK** · 11-11-2005

Kwifimanager can't handle wpa encrypted networks. Install the wpa_supplicant package from yast and use yast to configure the card.

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