help connecting to my schools wpa

[rma88]

hey all, i'm using ubuntu and i'm trying to connect to my schools wpa networking. i'm using...or trying to use...wpa_supplicant. I've read how to configure the configuration file and what not, and i can get wpa_supplicant to connect ( i can run wireshark and see all the network traffic ), but i'm not getting assigned an ip address or something because i cannot ping anything, cannot use html or anything. i've tried setting it mannualy, but i still have a problem, i would really really appreciate any help.

here is what wpa_supplicant says when i run it:

myuser@myPC:~$ sudo wpa_supplicant -Dmadwifi -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
Trying to associate with 00:02:2d:1e:8f:21 (SSID='WATERVIEW' freq=2462 MHz)
ioctl[IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETMLME]: Invalid argument
Association request to the driver failed
Associated with 00:02:2d:1e:8f:21
CTRL-EVENT-EAP-STARTED EAP authentication started
CTRL-EVENT-EAP-METHOD EAP vendor 0 method 25 (PEAP) selected
OpenSSL: tls_connection_handshake - Failed to read possible Application Data error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0)
EAP-MSCHAPV2: Authentication succeeded
EAP-TLV: TLV Result - Success - EAP-TLV/Phase2 Completed
CTRL-EVENT-EAP-SUCCESS EAP authentication completed successfully
CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:02:2d:1e:8f:21 completed (auth) [id=0 id_str=]
CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
Trying to associate with 00:02:2d:1e:8f:21 (SSID='WATERVIEW' freq=2462 MHz)
ioctl[IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETMLME]: Invalid argument
Association request to the driver failed
Associated with 00:02:2d:1e:8f:21
CTRL-EVENT-EAP-STARTED EAP authentication started
CTRL-EVENT-EAP-METHOD EAP vendor 0 method 25 (PEAP) selected
OpenSSL: tls_connection_handshake - Failed to read possible Application Data error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0)
EAP-MSCHAPV2: Authentication succeeded
EAP-TLV: TLV Result - Success - EAP-TLV/Phase2 Completed
CTRL-EVENT-EAP-SUCCESS EAP authentication completed successfully
CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:02:2d:1e:8f:21 completed (reauth) [id=0 id_str=]


so it acts like its connected, but dhcp or something isn't working. it says something about ssl failing, so that could be a problem too.

any help is greatly appreciated.
-thanks

[Tim_Wright]

Try

sudo dhclient iath0

Are you using an Atheros card? I found that mine just refused to work with WPA at all!

[rma88]

yes im using atheros.
i tried the command, for some reason i still don't get assigned an ip address or have any network connection, even though it says that its connected.