mlcampbe
14th July 2005, 06:59 PM
I've been figthing getting WPA security working on my Fedora 4 installation. I am able to get WEP working with no problems so I know that the card is good. In addition I have can use XP on the same laptop (it is dual boot) and WPA works fine with XP so I think it is Fedora configuration that is the problem.
I have a ipw2100 wireless card and have downloaded its files as well as wpa_supplicant.
I think that my problem is that wpa_supplicant does not detect the WPA interface. When I run it in debug mode the wpa_ie_len and rsn_ie_len values are all 0 for my AP as well as the AP's that are in the area. Note that it does see my AP but cannot use it due to the 0 length wpa_ie_len.
I did some research and fould that it appears that iwlist is not seeing my wpa_ie either. In the google search I did I see that most people's iwlist returns a line like:
wpa_ie=dd160050f20101000050f20201000050f2020100005 0f202
However, in my case I don't see anything like this. Does that mean there is a problem with iwlist that is manifesting itself in wpa_supplicant as well? I don't think that it is the AP because a neighbor has WPA enabled on his router as well and the iwlist finds his as well but again there is no wpa_ie entry listed.
Whats going on here? What am I doing wrong? Is it the ipw2100 files? Please help.
I have a ipw2100 wireless card and have downloaded its files as well as wpa_supplicant.
I think that my problem is that wpa_supplicant does not detect the WPA interface. When I run it in debug mode the wpa_ie_len and rsn_ie_len values are all 0 for my AP as well as the AP's that are in the area. Note that it does see my AP but cannot use it due to the 0 length wpa_ie_len.
I did some research and fould that it appears that iwlist is not seeing my wpa_ie either. In the google search I did I see that most people's iwlist returns a line like:
wpa_ie=dd160050f20101000050f20201000050f2020100005 0f202
However, in my case I don't see anything like this. Does that mean there is a problem with iwlist that is manifesting itself in wpa_supplicant as well? I don't think that it is the AP because a neighbor has WPA enabled on his router as well and the iwlist finds his as well but again there is no wpa_ie entry listed.
Whats going on here? What am I doing wrong? Is it the ipw2100 files? Please help.
