More 2005LE wireless problems

[veeral]

hi. i have installed 2005 LE and have problems with wireless. I am not as advanced as the initiator of this thread. i installed ndiswrapper and when it asked for windows drivers i provided only .inf file. in addition i installed the firmware and ipw2200 drivers too but it doesnt seem to work for me. i have wpa-psk and tkip too. have downloaded wpa_supplicant but dunno how to go further. eager for ur replies and help. thanks.

[Thin]

Thread stealer!

 

Well, seeing as my problem is solved. If you're running 2005 LE i'd try using the IPW2200 driver before resorting to NDIS wrapper.

 

How did you install the firmware and WPA supplicant ? I used easy urpmi to setup source and then simple urpmi commands to get the firmware from PLF and the supplicant from main

 

once you've made your /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf along the lines above try

 

wpa_supplicant -i eth2 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D ipw -w -dd

 

where eth2 is your wireless interface

 

you can make it

 

wpa_supplicant -B -i eth2 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D ipw -w -dd

 

to run the command in the background (daemonize)

 

You may wish to add

 

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

ctrl_interface_group=0

 

to the top of your wpa_supplicant.conf. the first line gives an interface for client programs to access - and the interface group lets you specify a group of users who can manage it (0 = root)

 

HTH

[Qchem]

I've split this off into a seperate thread to keep things clear.

 

If it's possible it's sometimes a good move to switch all wireless security off and just make sure you can make a connection to the network, then try to add wpa etc.