wpa_supplicant + ndiswrapper + WPA-PSK-AP

[Neville Chandler]

Thanks for your help.

I made the changes you recommended and WPA-PSK TKIP is now working! 
There is
however one caveat. The AP is configured for 802.11g only; but "iwlist" 
and "iwconfig"
show the protocol to be 802.11b

#----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# iwlist wlan0 scan
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 16, therefore some driver features
may not be available...

wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:0C:41:37:6F:35
ESSID:"SomeNet"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-35 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
Bit Rate:6 Mb/s
Bit Rate:9 Mb/s
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
Bit Rate:12 Mb/s
Bit Rate:18 Mb/s
Bit Rate:24 Mb/s
Bit Rate:36 Mb/s
Bit Rate:48 Mb/s
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
Extra:wpa_ie=dd160050f20101000050f20201000050f20201000050f202

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

irda0 no wireless extensions.

Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 16, therefore some driver features
may not be available...

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"SomeNet" Nickname:"nomad"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:0C:41:37:6F:35
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption 
key:5A7C-993F-F804-273D-B4C5-B1EA-C1A0-4634-455B-1F53-903B-F7D0-36DE-CD38-78A4-C04E
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-37 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:16 Invalid misc:3389 Missed beacon:0

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Jouni Malinen wrote:

>On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 04:10:40PM -0400, Neville Chandler wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I have a Dell TrueMobile 1300 in a Dell laptop which works quite well 
>>with ndiswrapper-1.1 if encryption is disabled. However, I've been 
>>unsuccessful with WPA (using  wpa_supplicant -0.3.8 ).  The AP  ( WRT54G 
>>with Firmware Version: v3.01.3 )  is configured for  WPA PSK TKIP and is 
>>never found.  
>>    
>>
>
>Have you enabled SSID hiding ("disable broadcast SSID")?
>
>  
>
>>#/usr/local/src/wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.3.8/.config
>>#
>>CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXTENSION=y
>>CONFIG_DRIVER_NDISWRAPPER=y
>>CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE=y
>>CONFIG_EAP_PSK=y
>>    
>>
>
>Please note that EAP-PSK is not WPA-PSK and you most likely do not need
>EAP-PSK (CONFIG_EAP_PSK). WPA-PSK is enabled automatically without any
>configuration parameter in .config.
>
>  
>
>>ap_scan=1
>>
>>network={
>>       ssid="Test"
>>       scan_ssid=1
>>    
>>
>
>Please note that ndiswrapper does not support scan_ssid=1. If you are
>using hidden SSID, please try ap_scan=2 mode and remove this
>scan_ssid=1. For ap_scan=2, you will need to explicitly configure the
>correct mode, i.e., set pairwise to match with the setup that the AP is
>using (either CCMP or TKIP, not both) and set proto to WPA or WPA2.
>
>  
>

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