D-Link WUA-1340 USB Wireless on Fedora 9

[Jayson Wonder]

I would use the file in the /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices. But the files there are identical to the ones in the network-scripts folder.

Change whatever you feel needs changing.

BOOTPROTO=static
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=<Put your static IP address here>

ESSID=<your wireless network name>
NM_CONTROLLED=no

Hey,

Thanks for the input man. I have tried this, it somehow broke my network conectivity. Perhaps I am doing somethign wrong or leaving out some entries of of this file. Do you know where I can find out the specifications for these entries so I know what can and should go there.

[Jayson Wonder]

Hey,

Just reporting back. Everything works but I get this erro when I bring my network up or down:

Error for wireless request "Set Encode"
Set failed on device wlan0 ; invalid argument (8B2A)

I am sure it has to do with the ifcfig-wlan0 or keys-wlan0 scripts.

Any thoughts on what is casuing this or how to get rid of it?

[waterhead]

Maybe this is about the encryption key. Read the iwconfig man pages about this:

key/enc[ryption]

[Jayson Wonder]

Maybe this is about the encryption key. Read the iwconfig man pages about this:

key/enc[ryption]

Hey, Yes I checked this and still have no luck after playing with a few different settings.

I edited my ifcfg-wlan file to include settings for KEY and ENC but I can`t seem to figure out what is wrong. Perhaps it is related to the wpa_supplicant.conf file although I doubt this becuase this service starts up with out generating any errors.

Where can I go to see the errors log containing the errors from the ifup wlan0 command?

Althought my connection is working, I am concerned as it could be have security implications and I just feel like I need to understand what and why this error is occuring.

Any help is appreciated!

[waterhead]

Depending on the type of encryption used, the key is entered in a different way.

For WEP I believe you can enter it with the iwconfig command. For WPA encryption, you must use wpa_supplicant. The wpa_supplicant.conf file is where the encryption key is put, in hex form. You can find the hex version of a text key using the wpa_passphrase command.

> wpa_passphrase
usage: wpa_passphrase <ssid> [passphrase]

[Jayson Wonder]

Depending on the type of encryption used, the key is entered in a different way.

For WEP I believe you can enter it with the iwconfig command. For WPA encryption, you must use wpa_supplicant. The wpa_supplicant.conf file is where the encryption key is put, in hex form. You can find the hex version of a text key using the wpa_passphrase command.

> wpa_passphrase
usage: wpa_passphrase <ssid> [passphrase]

Yes that is correct and exactly what I have done. It is connecting with the wpa_supplicant service that is running on boot. I get no errors from this at all. It seems to be working well but when I use:

ifup wlan0

I get this error:

Error for wireless request "Set Encode"
Set failed on device wlan0 ; invalid argument (8B2A)

So I am thinking the problem lies with the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 file. Here is what is included in mine which is set up for static IP:

# Static IP Config
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=wlan0
HWADDR=00:1e:58:9e:37:02
CHANNEL=1
RATE=54M
ESSID=JAZZNET
MODE=Managed
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
IPADDR=192.168.1.200
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
DNS0=192.168.1.1
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
PEERDNS=no
IPV6INIT=no
USERCTL=no
NM_CONTROLLED=no

I also found this file named keys-wlan0 and this is the contents of that file although I have no ideal how that is used either since I assume wpa_supplicant handles the WPA encryption here is that file:

KEY=mypasswordinhexmypasswordinhexmypasswordinhexmypasswordinhex

I am so lost any help is appreciated.

[Jayson Wonder]

I also found this file named keys-wlan0 and this is the contents of that file although I have no ideal how that is used either since I assume wpa_supplicant handles the WPA encryption here is that file:

KEY=mypasswordinhexmypasswordinhexmypasswordinhexmypasswordinhex

I am so lost any help is appreciated.

This was the problem!!! I had to comment out this line and the error went away. I dawned on me that the keys-wlan0 file is used to pass a WEP encryption key to connection but since I have wpa_supplicant doing this for me, I need not have the file or any entry in this keys-wlan0 file. Since my connection already has accepted a WPA Key this file sending a second key, WEP type at that was giving the error.

Thanks for your help!

[waterhead]

Good work!