WPA_Supplicant

Has anybody successfully used ndiswrapper and WPA? Are ya willin' to help an old trail hound?

The Tramp

Looks like Mr. Bass has given up on WPA.

http://www.mrbass.org/linux/mepis/

That's not encouraging...

The Tramp

you're on your own
sorry i don't know

Got it working. I am using it to post this reply. I don't know what will happen when I reboot though.... heh, heh. (Maybe Mr. Bass was talking about the live CD as apposed to the HD install).
Mr. Warren, is there someway that you could include WPA in your network gui? That is really all I see that is missing from this version of Simply Mepis. It is a great distro and if I'm ever in Morgantown I will look you up and buy you dinner.
The Tramp

Thanks for answering back. I was looking like Jack from "The Shining" talking to myself like that.
Well, I have rebooted this laptop and typed a bunch of ugly stuff to get back on that wireless router w/ WPA. If I ever get to the point where I'm practiced at it, and I get consistant results, I will try to post what I've been doing.
The Tramp

First, I typed ???su root??? in a terminal window and logged in. Then, while hooked up thru the wired part of the router, I typed ???apt-get update.??? Then I typed ???apt-get install wpasupplicant.??? Then I made a wpa_supplicant.config text file in /etc. Inside I typed:

??

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant # for wpa_cli support

??

network={

?? ssid="myssid"

?? psk="mysecret"

?? key_mgmt=WPA-PSK

?? proto=WPA

}

Then I save the file. Next I type this in the terminal window:

??

ifconfig wlan0 up

wpa_supplicant -Dndiswrapper -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf ???dd

I still find that I have to retype the last couple of lines each time I reboot. I see

??errors come up that I ignore and it works most of the time. If anybody knows

??of a more elegant way of doing this, please let me know.

??

The Tramp

use the up arrow in a terminal window to get (usually) 50 previous commands