wpa_supplicant troubles on Debian Etch

[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.

[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:

# WPA AES encryption
    ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
    network={
        ssid="YourLan ID"
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        proto=WPA
        pairwise=CCMP TKIP
        group=CCMP TKIP WEP104 WEP40
        psk="123456passkey"
        priority=2
    }

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.

[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:

 iwconfig wlan0 mode managed

Then check it using iwconfig without any options:

iwconfig

You may need to first disable/enable it after making changes:

ifdown wlan0
ifup wlan0

[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