WPA key ?

[Natty Dreed]

hi

I'm having trouble with my Wireless connection

I have a router [ Speedtouch 585 ]

and I secure my wireless interface with WPA key

The problem is I cannot connect to my router with WPA key

My chip Is [ Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG ]

I try to remove the WPA key and its work Fine

but I don't want to make my router Public


any idea

and by the way

I use [ Wireless Assistant 0.5.7 ]
and if i want to connect to my router it give me this error

==>stderr: Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: No such file or directory
Using wpa_supplicant driver: ipw
WPA client started. Waiting for status...
CONNECTION FAILED.
disconnect: /sbin/iwconfig eth1 mode managed key off ap off essid off

Please help me

[waterhead]

It looks like wpa_supplicant is not configured correctly. Or maybe it isn't even installed?

[Natty Dreed]

Yeah its not installed

cuz I have problem with [ .config ] File

I don't how to config it with my chip [ ipw3945 ]

could you give me some basic ?

and thank you for reply

[waterhead]

There are config file examples in the folder /usr/share/doc/packages/wpa_supplicant/examples. Here's one for WPA-PSK-TKIP.

# WPA-PSK/TKIP

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

network={
    ssid="example wpa-psk network"
    key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
    proto=WPA
    pairwise=TKIP
    group=TKIP
    psk="secret passphrase"
}

You need to change the "example wpa-psk network" and "secret passphrase" to your specific settings, keep the quotation marks around those entries.
There are other examples in the wpa_supplicant.conf file in /usr/share/doc/packages/wpa_supplicant/.

Put your file in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. When you run wpa_supplicant, point it to that file.

 wpa_supplicant -Dipw -ieth1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

Here is a link to your drivers page:
Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver for Linux
It says that you need the latest version of wpa_supplicant for it to work.

There also is the wpa_gui that comes with wpa_supplicant. Type that into a terminal to bring it up.

[Natty Dreed]

Yeah I read it

and I want to install WPA_Sublicant

but every time I want to install it I have problem with [ Make ]

cuz My [ .config ] File is not Right

I don't know how to make it right

any one have it ?

or basic how i do it

[waterhead]

The exact error that you are getting would be helpful. Try the make command again, this time with debugging enabled:

# make -d

Copy and post the errors that it gives you.

[waterhead]

I had to download and try it myself before I realized what it was you needed. There is a sample config file, named defconfig. Open it up in a text editor and find the line for your driver, and uncomment it.

Change this:

# Driver interface for Intel ipw2100/2200 driver
#CONFIG_DRIVER_IPW=y

To this:

# Driver interface for Intel ipw2100/2200 driver
CONFIG_DRIVER_IPW=y

Check the file out to see if there are any other things that you may want to enable or disable. Then save it as .conf (with the "dot" in front).

[Natty Dreed]

I will try it now

thanks

[Natty Dreed]

Install done

thanks to god then you

But when I run this command

wpa_supplicant -Dipw -ieth1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

Give me this error

Trying to associate with 00:14:7f:11:ac:a7 (SSID='NattyDreed' freq=2412 MHz)
ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[IPW_IOCTL_WPA_SUPPLICANT]: Operation not supported
Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.

What wrong ?

and also I cannot connect ;(

[waterhead]

Checking around for similar errors, I found some that say to use the wext driver in configuring wpa_supplicant. Try this:

# wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -w -dd

Also, make sure that eth1 is actually the correct card:

# iwconfig

And that your wpa_supplicant.conf file is correct.