HOWTO: ipw2200 + wpa

[alvonsius]

@ people getting issues with DHCP:

Try this patch against ipw2200 1.0.6: http://people.redhat.com/pjones/ipw2200/broadcast.patch

Uhm ... Luca, could you show me how to do the patch? Thanks ...

[luca_linux]

Uhm ... Luca, could you show me how to do the patch? Thanks ...

Of course! Just type:

cd ipw2200-1.0.6
patch -p1 < /dir_where_the_patch_is/broadcast.patch

Then just follow the HowTo.

[OKK77]

@ people getting issues with DHCP:

I guess it's WPA related, so maybe you can try to install (compiling from sources) the latest development version of wpa_supplicant (that is 0.4.4), that is stable enough (so don't worry for this) and has the latest features and patches.
Here it is: http://hostap.epitest.fi/releases/wp...t-0.4.4.tar.gz

I don't know if this will help, but maybe it's worth trying.

Remember to unistall the wpa_supplicant currently installed.

Then let me know and post your experience.

Is anyone having problem compiling this? I'm having errors with md5.c file.

[net_benjo]

Hello,

I've followed this HOWTO and I think I did everything correctly. I had to manualy remove old ieee80211 module.

Now when I turn on my computer I was expecingt to be connected to my wireless automatically. But my wireless does not work. this is what I get when I type iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 unassociated ESSID:"bosna"
Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth1 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

Can anybody help give me a hint as to what I need to do for wireless to work?

thanks

[luca_linux]

Are you using WPA?

[FishFoot]

Hey all,

Luca, thanks for the great guide. I'm having some trouble though. I've been through this (and a couple of other) guides and I've not had much success. I'm sure it was working at one point but it isn't now, and I can't get WEP or WPA to work.

What I'd like to do is clear out anything that I may have screwed up and start from scratch. Trouble is I don't know which config files and programs should be cleared out and I'm not quite sure how to clear them once I've figured out what they are.

I know I've played with wpasupplicant, modprobe, and I've followed the above guide twice to no avail. I tried another guide that suggested using ndiswrapper and the win drivers. I think I've removed everything from all this but I'm not sure.

On a related note, what are the implications of using the ubuntu networking config GUI tool. How well does it play with the other network tools and scripts like ifconfig, iwconfig and ifup/ifdown?

I hope somebody can help
FishFoot.

[net_benjo]

Are you using WPA?

Yes luca_linux, I am using WPA-PSK. I know becase that is how my windows connects to my wireless...

Ben

[luca_linux]

Yes luca_linux, I am using WPA-PSK. I know becase that is how my windows connects to my wireless...

Ben

Type:

dmesg | grep ipw

and post the result.

[luca_linux]

Hey all,

Luca, thanks for the great guide. I'm having some trouble though. I've been through this (and a couple of other) guides and I've not had much success. I'm sure it was working at one point but it isn't now, and I can't get WEP or WPA to work.

What I'd like to do is clear out anything that I may have screwed up and start from scratch. Trouble is I don't know which config files and programs should be cleared out and I'm not quite sure how to clear them once I've figured out what they are.

I know I've played with wpasupplicant, modprobe, and I've followed the above guide twice to no avail. I tried another guide that suggested using ndiswrapper and the win drivers. I think I've removed everything from all this but I'm not sure.

On a related note, what are the implications of using the ubuntu networking config GUI tool. How well does it play with the other network tools and scripts like ifconfig, iwconfig and ifup/ifdown?

I hope somebody can help
FishFoot.

Yeah, except for the WPA you can use the GUI tool.
Does you wireless connection work without WEP/WPA?

[FishFoot]

Yeah, except for the WPA you can use the GUI tool.
Does you wireless connection work without WEP/WPA?

Not at the moment, it did at some point. That's why I want to clear everything out. I'm sure I just got things a little mixed up and if I can get back to ground zero and then start again it will work... I hope.

Thanks for the reply
FishFoot