rt3572: Can't get WPA_supplicant to work

[ohmysql]

Very helpful, now that's working - I now have wicd in the tray. Thanks!

I wonder why wpa_supplicant wasn't working. But in any case, this workaround is working.

[ohmysql]

This has totally stopped working on 11.10. I'm now getting a "Bad Password" error on wicd and network manager still isn't playing with the WPA supplicant. HELP!

[praseodym]

Uninstall the NM again?

[ohmysql]

Oh, yes, sorry, that last post was confusing. Thank you.

When I upgraded, I'm aware that the system automatically installed NM again. Obviously wicd stopped working. I then uninstalled NM, "bad password." I uninstalled wicd, reinstalled NM. WPA_supplicant wasn't working. I then realized I hadn't uninstalled network-manager-pptp, so I reinstalled wicd. "Bad password."

Well, I just got a series of updates from Canonical (they seem to focus on updating the graphics as far as I can tell, not fixing bugs, but I'll keep working on this).

[ohmysql]

Dang, still no luck.

[praseodym]

Dou you have blanks and/or strange letters in your key? How long is the key? Please show the outputs of:

sudo iwlist scan #which is your network here?
iwconfig

[ohmysql]

Dou you have blanks and/or strange letters in your key? How long is the key? Please show the outputs of:

sudo iwlist scan #which is your network here?
iwconfig

Great questions.

The key is 40 characters long. And yes, there are spaces in it. The only other strange characters would be an apostrophe and a period. It is working for my sister's ubuntu, and other wireless cards, but still, it could be the space, ', or . that is throwing things off.

Here is the output of your commands:

sudo iwlist scan #which is your network here?
lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

ra0       Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:18:E7:F9:FC:B6
                    Protocol:802.11b/g/n
                    ESSID:"SONYABLADE"
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
                    Quality=0/100  Signal level=-101 dBm  Noise level=-96 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    IE: Unknown: DD0E0050F204104A0001101044000102
          Cell 02 - Address: 00:16:B6:B3:A0:10
                    Protocol:802.11b/g
                    ESSID:"2325"
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
                    Quality=100/100  Signal level=-21 dBm  Noise level=-92 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK

The latter is our network.

iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

ra0       Ralink STA  ESSID:"11n-AP"  Nickname:"RT3071STA"
          Mode:Auto  Frequency=2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:1 Mb/s   
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Link Quality=10/100  Signal level:0 dBm  Noise level:0 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Thank you for your persistence. I have a feeling we're getting close.

OMS

[praseodym]

Which ESSID is it? "SONYABLADE" or "2325"? Anyway: Set up a wpa_supplicant config file:

sudo touch /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf       #create the file
sudo chmod 600 /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf   #read only for root
gksudo gedit /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

Insert:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
eapol_version=1

ap_scan=1

network={
        ssid="YourESSID"
        scan_ssid=1
        key_mgmt=NONE
        wep_tx_keyidx=0
        wep_key0="Your-Key"
        auth_alg=SHARED
        priority=2
}

If the encryption is "WEP-shared" add additionally the green lines, otherwise not.
Restart your connection:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

[ohmysql]

Which ESSID is it? "SONYABLADE" or "2325"? Anyway: Set up a wpa_supplicant config file:

We're 2325. Also, it's a WPA2 connection. A lot of the code you gave me said "wep" - will that still work for a WPA2 encryption?

Also, when I put in the code you suggested, I put in the password as is, spaces and ' and . and everything. Is that the way I should've done it?

sudo touch /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf       #create the file
sudo chmod 600 /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf   #read only for root
gksudo gedit /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

Insert:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
eapol_version=1

ap_scan=1

network={
        ssid="YourESSID"
        scan_ssid=1
        key_mgmt=NONE
        wep_tx_keyidx=0
        wep_key0="Your-Key"
        auth_alg=SHARED
        priority=2
}

If the encryption is "WEP-shared" add additionally the green lines, otherwise not.
Restart your connection:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Ok, I did what you said - I didn't include the green lines because we use WPA2. So far this doesn't seem to have worked. Let me know if the config file is right for WPA2 and if I need to put the key in binary before pasting it in the file.

OMS

[praseodym]

Oh, sorry, for WPA2 it needs to be:

gksudo gedit /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

Change the complete file to:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
eapol_version=1

ap_scan=1

network={
        ssid="YourESSID"
        scan_ssid=1
        proto=RSN
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        pairwise=CCMP
        group=TKIP
        psk="YourKey"
}

Start the debug-mode with:

sudo killall wpa_supplicant
sudo wpa_supplicant -i ra0 -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -d > wpadebug.txt

Stop the debugger after ca. 30 seconds wich "CTRL+C" and upload the file wpadebug.txt