wpa_supplicant question

Xihong Yin xyin at bluebottle.com
Sat Sep 1 09:19:45 PDT 2007


It is working now. I have to use wep_key0 and wep_tx_keyidx=0.

Many thanks!

Xihong

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Mel wrote:

> On Saturday 01 September 2007 16:47:49 Xihong Yin wrote:
>> Thanks, I thought it was the problem of the argument. But I still can not
>> connect to my Access Point using wap_supplicant while I can connect by
>> 'ifconfig'. It always connects to a different network which is in the
>> previous DHCP leases. But this network is not what I specified in my
>> /etc/wap_supplicant.conf file.
>>
>> My /etc/wap_supplicant.conf looks like this:
>>
>> network={
>>    ssid="home"
>>    key_mgmt=NONE
>>    wep_key1=1234567890
>>    wep_tx_keyidx=1
>> }
>
> Unless that's a typo, it would be /etc/wpa_supplicant not wap.
> Also make sure you don't specify the 0x in wep_key1. Also try wep_key0 and
> wep_tx_keyidx=0. It automagically worked for me on one install.
>
> That said, I don't have much luck with wpa_supplicant either, some cards it
> works some cards it doesn't and the output isn't very informative. Recently
> `ifconfig ath0 up scan' seems to make all network traffic stop, even if
> you're connected through a wire.
>
> -- 
> Mel
>
> People using reply to all on lists, must think I need 2 copies.
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