Can't connect with WPA
Submitted by kumar on Sat, 10/14/2006 - 22:59.
Wireless Network Cards
Posts: 89
Posts: 89
OK,
I finally gave up on my internal broadcomm wireless adapter and bought a new Belkin wireless G card. Yipee! Mepis detected it out of the box! It shows up on ath0.
Now I need to connect to my router. I installed wifi radar and wpa_supplicant using Synaptic. Wifi radar sees my router just fine, so I know the card is working. When I turn off WPA on the router I can connect just fine and get assigned an IP. However, when I turn on WPA, it says connected, but can't assign an IP.
I've created an entry in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf for my router, with the SSID and the WPA-key. In wifi radar I went into the setting for the router and turned on WPA with ath0 entered for the Driver.
What else am I missing?
Thanks,
kumar
Fixed
Posts: 89
Duh..
I added madwifi instead of ath0 for the driver and it worked. I just didn't read enough about wpa_supplicant in the wiki. Maybe this will help someone...
kumar