Michele.B26

Hi all, I have ti set up a wi-fi connection on my Debian Etch 4.0 r3. I have a D-Link DWL-G122 H/W Ver.: C1 F/W Ver.: 3.00 usb pen drive.
I had looked around and I had installed the rt73 driver found here: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page.

It works fine, but without encritpion.
For my wireless connection I use WPA-PSK with TKIP encription, so I had installed the wpa_supplicant package, btu when I try to access to my LAN it gives to me some errors like these:

rt73: driver version - 1.0.3.6 CVS
rt73: using net dev supplied MAC addr
rt73: Active MAC addr: [...]
rt73 Local MAC = [...]
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_PRISM2_PARAM]: Invalid argument
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_PRISM2_PARAM]: Invalid argument
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: Operation not supported
Failed to set encryption.
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: Operation not supported
Failed to set encryption.
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: Operation not supported
Failed to set encryption.
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: Operation not supported
Failed to set encryption.
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_PRISM2_PARAM]: Invalid argument
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_PRISM2_PARAM]: Invalid argument
CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING - signal 2 received
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: Operation not supported
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_PRISM2_PARAM]: Invalid argument
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_PRISM2_PARAM]: Invalid argument
Failed to disable WPA in the driver.
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_PRISM2_PARAM]: Invalid argument
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_PRISM2_PARAM]: Invalid argument
rt73: closed

My /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf is:

network={
ssid="My LAN ID"
#psk="My key"
psk=[...]
}

My /etc/network/interfaces is:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
#allow-hotplug eth0
#auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet static
#address 192.168.0.101
#netmask 255.255.255.0
#gateway 192.168.0.100

#allow-hotplug wlan0
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168.0.151
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.0.100
#wireless-essid MyID
#wireless-mode managed
#wireless-channel 7
#wpa-proto WPA-PSK
#wpa-driver wext
#wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
#wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
#wpa-psk [...]

I had tried a lot of configurations, but no one works.
Have you some suggestion to give to me? What are these errors? And what can I do?

I followed this guide:

http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsecur/article.php/3594946

Thanks you a lot for any suggest.

waterhead

Instead of using wpa_supplicant for WPA connections, use the NetworkManager. It should be located in the system tray, if it is installed and running.

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Michele.B26

Ehm... I've forgotten to tell that I'm running my Debian in text mode, I haven't installed xorg, this because I use it only for file server and it have old hardware. I'm configuring all by hand with mc and nano.

Thank you anyway

waterhead

OK, I still have my wpa_supplicant.conf file from when I needed it, so this is what it looks like:
For the ssid you need to put the name of your lan connection. For the psk I had the password that I used, in human readable words. I made sure that my passkey was thirteen digits, as this seems to be important. So a passkey like "123456passkey" is thirteen digits, if you get what I mean. I think that this is important for wpa encryption.

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Michele.B26

nothing, it doesn't work. I'll try with a newer kernel.

Thank you anyway

waterhead

It looks from your config file that you have the line for managed mode commented out. Try setting it to managed mode, with this command:
Then check it using iwconfig without any options:You may need to first disable/enable it after making changes:

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Michele.B26

rien de rien, nada de nada, niente di niente, absolutely nothing, absolut nichts. It doesn't want to works. As I have just told I'll wait for the new kernel, I'll try with Lenny when it will be stable.

Thank you