Can't get WPA to work

[jurupa]

I have got the wifi card to work without wpa_supplicant but when I try to get the wpa to work it can't connect. Heres some info that may be usefull:

Linux distro: Debian Sarge
Kernel: 2.6.8
Wifi Card: Netgear WG511v2 (its the Marvell Chip one)
Security: TKIP

iwconfig:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11FH  ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed  Channel:0  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
          Bit Rate:1 Mb/s   Sensitivity=-200 dBm
          RTS thr:2346 B   Fragment thr:2346 B
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-46 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:1  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

wpa_supplicant.conf

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
CONFIG_DRIVER_NDISWRAPPER=y
CONFIG_CTL_IFACE=y

eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1

# Home Wifi Network
network={
	ssid="linksys"
	key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
	psk="password"
	pairwise=TKIP
	proto=WPA
	group=TKIP
}

wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D ndiswrapper -d

Initializing interface 'wlan0' conf '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 'ndiswrapper'
Configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' -> '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
Reading configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
ctrl_interface='/var/run/wpa_supplicant'
ctrl_interface_group=0
Line 3: Invalid configuration line 'CONFIG_DRIVER_NDISWRAPPER=y'.
Line 4: Invalid configuration line 'CONFIG_CTL_IFACE=y'.
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
Priority group 0
   id=0 ssid='linksys'
Failed to read configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'.

Any help will be very usefull. I have tried various things primary with the wpa_supplicant.conf file with no luck. Like I said everything works except for the wpa security which the card does supports according to the specs on the box and on the Netgear site.

[Perfect Reign]

Couple of things:

First, can you turn off your security in your router and connect?

If so, then you want to check what your passphrase is set at in your router.

[antidrugue]

The wpasupplicant version that comes with Debian Sarge is quite old (0.3.8-1). I wasn't able to do anything with it either.

I suggest you either upgrade to Debian Etch (with which you'll find your laptop to be much more functionnal anyway) or you use Debian Sarge's backports to fetch a newer version of wpasupplicant (if one is available there).

[jurupa]

Couple of things:

First, can you turn off your security in your router and connect?

If so, then you want to check what your passphrase is set at in your router.

I can connect with the security off. The passphrase is correct, I just used a different one here for security reasons.

The wpasupplicant version that comes with Debian Sarge is quite old (0.3.8-1). I wasn't able to do anything with it either.

I suggest you either upgrade to Debian Etch (with which you'll find your laptop to be much more functionnal anyway) or you use Debian Sarge's backports to fetch a newer version of wpasupplicant (if one is available there).

Isn't Etch coming out in December? If so it be bearly a month wait really assuming things go smoothly. But since it seems most of the bugs are worked out in Etch I will download it and install it. Hopefully that will fix my problem. I was going to look into compiling the Network Manager for Gnome, because from what I have read it manages wifi connections and you can define the passpharses better in it.

And getting more functionality out of a 5 year old laptop (it came out in 2001) is always a good thing, especially when one of its uses is for car dynostics.

But I thank you both for helping anyway, and I am off downloading Etch.

[jurupa]

Ya it works now. It even sees the wifi card completely when I do lspci after I installed ndiswrapper.

[antidrugue]

Plus, NetworkManager is available for Etch. So all is good.