Getting WPA2-PSK

Rui Paulo rpaulo at fnop.net
Fri Dec 19 07:05:09 PST 2008


On 19 Dec 2008, at 14:19, Jordy Dickinson wrote:

> Hey, I've never used a mailing list before, so forgive me if I'm not  
> doing
> this right.
>
> I'm trying to set up my network card, but I keep getting this error  
> message.
> I type in this:
>
> ifconfig wi0 authmode wpa
>>
>
> And I get this:
>
> ieee80211_load_module: load the wlan_xauth module by hand for now.
>> ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument
>>
>
> Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>

You're probably running a custom kernel without the wlan_xauth module  
built in. Either load it as a module or compile it in your kernel.

You may also want to use wpa_supplicant instead.

Regads,
--
Rui Paulo



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