Wireless Security Settings when connecting to a Wireless network

[manjo]

Hi,

I have an ADSL wireless router. I want to connect to the internet using my wireless card which is working fine with my fedora 11 installation.

When I try to connect to the wireless connection detected by Fedora 11, it's requesting wireless network authentication.

My router is set to WPA (anyWPA). WPA2 Pre-authentication is enabled. I know the SSID, Pre-Shared Key and all other settings.

Which options should I choose with fedora 11.

Wireless Security:
1.WEP 40/128-bit
2.WEP 128-bit Passphrase
3.LEAP
4.Dynamic WEP (802.1x)

Key: I have the key.

WEP Index
1. 1 (Default)
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4

Authentication:
1. Open System
2. Shared Key

Thank you in advance.
Manjo.

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[Iron_Mike]

Originally Posted by manjo

Hi,

I have an ADSL wireless router. I want to connect to the internet using my wireless card which is working fine with my fedora 11 installation.

When I try to connect to the wireless connection detected by Fedora 11, it's requesting wireless network authentication.

My router is set to WPA (anyWPA). WPA2 Pre-authentication is enabled. I know the SSID, Pre-Shared Key and all other settings.

Which options should I choose with fedora 11.

Wireless Security:
1.WEP 40/128-bit
2.WEP 128-bit Passphrase
3.LEAP
4.Dynamic WEP (802.1x)

Key: I have the key.

WEP Index
1. 1 (Default)
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4

Authentication:
1. Open System
2. Shared Key

Thank you in advance.
Manjo.

libiki-inc.blogspot.com
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If your router is set to WPA and the only options that fedora is giving you is WEP, LEAP, and DWEP, then you have a problem. Either Fedora is misreading your wireless card capabilities, or your card doesn't support WPA/WPA2, or there is a configuration error.

Mike

[manjo]

Thanks for your reply Mike.

The card definitely supports WPA/WPA2 as it was working fine with XP just before I install Fedora 11.

Thanks.

[bbfuller]

Hello manjo

It might help if we knew which wireless chipset your card uses:

/sbin/lspci

from a command prompt will probably tell us that, and what method of driving the card you are using. Native Linux driver or ndiswrapper.

There are two other possibilities I can think to check. Firstly not all linux drivers are happy with the "draft n" capability turned on in an access point and secondly, not all linux drivers are constructed to use all the channels available in all parts of the World. As an instance, in Europe we can use channels 12 and 13 in our Access points but some Linux drivers seem not to work with them.

Might be worth experimenting with.

[manjo]

This is very useful information. Thanks bbfuller.

I fixed the problem prior to your thread. Even though auto detected network connection didn't have WPA2 option, once I got in to add new network it gave me all the options. And so I deleted my current connection and created a new connection and restarted.

Things are running smooth now.

Thanks again.