WPA-PSK on Dell XPS m1330

[doubleij]

Hi,

I bought my Dell XPS m1330 with Ubuntu pre-installed and have been very happy. Wireless works flawlessly for WEP and WPA personal. Unfortunately, I can't get my machine to connect to a WPA-PSK network at a friend's home where I'm staying (TKIP encryption). It's a hidden SSID, but my wifi will detect and show the network in gnome's GUI wireless display after I enter the name and enter the passphrase. Unfortunately, I can't actually connect. I select WPA Personal and then TKIP at the moment, because that's the closest. Selecting these options, I can see the network, but it just tries to connect endlessly (none of the dots go green). I do not see an option in my GUI for WPA-PSK (or WPA2).

If it helps, my network/interfaces file has the following
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

How do I enable WPA-PSK in Dell XPS m1330? I have the stand Intel wireless card that comes with this machine.

Thanks in advance for any tips.

[rybl]

Any chance you can just make the SSID visible? Hiding it doesn't really add much security especially if you are using strong encryption.

Edit: By the way, I'm pretty sure that WPA-PSK and WPA Personal are the same thing.

[vdoki]

Any news here? I am in the same situation. Or maybe not, if your wireless is really intel.

I have a Dell XPS M1330 too, this is the wireless card:

description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4312 802.11b/g
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
logical name: eth1
version: 01
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl latency=0 module=wl multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

I can connect at home with WPA to a linksys router, but at work there is an smc router with WPA which is causing trouble.

I have learned if i change WPA to WPA2, then I'm able to connect (but my phone can't, so this is not an option).

I'm using wicd, but I have tried it by hand too.

Any idea why this particular router is causing trouble? I tried to update the firmware on that, but that did not help either.

[vdoki]

I have solved my problem.

It seems, that the router gives inconsistent information about the connections settings.

This is the result of iwlist scan:

Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:22:33:44:55
ESSID:"myssid"
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.432 GHz (Channel 5)
Quality:4/5 Signal level:-66 dBm Noise level:-24 dBm
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Preauthentication Supported
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s


This configuration is generated by wicd (/var/lib/wicd/configurations/macaddress):

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
ssid="myssid"
scan_ssid=0
proto=WPA RSN
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=CCMP TKIP
psk=04408fc84426332645486e9ec3a61bbf945df4886f9e3e bb7e4182043e3a8c0e
}


But this is the correct configuration:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
ssid="myssid"
scan_ssid=0
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
psk=04408fc84426332645486e9ec3a61bbf945df4886f9e3e bb7e4182043e3a8c0e
}


According to this very helpful howto (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=571188), the first is the WPA2 and the second is the WPA1 kind of configuration.

I could not let wicd use my correct settings, so I got back network-manager. Network manager created the same wrong settings, but I could edit in gconf-editor in /system/networking/connections/N/802-11-wireless-security.

So finnaly I am able to connect!