Problems with WPA-PSK and madwifi driver

[Eduardo Mendes]

Hi ya

Many thanks.

I am not sure what to do.   

How can I be sure that wpa_client has succesfully authenticated?  

When I try dhclient atho, the system returns

NO DCHPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent data base sleeping.

What funny is that etho can get the ip address from the same dhcp server 
without a problem.

Any ideas?

Many thanks

Ed



On Monday 14 February 2005 08:32 am, Jonathan Buschmann wrote:
> Hi,
> Be sure first that wpa_client has succesfully authenticated.
> Try dhclient without the -1.
> BTW, is your dhcp server on the same subnetwork as your client?
> jonathan
>
> Eduardo Mendes waxed wise and spake thus on 02/11/2005 06:08 PM:
> >Hello
> >
> >Thanks.  I have tried dhclient -1 ath0 but the message was:
> >
> >Unable to obtain a lease on the first time.
> >
> >
> >Is there anything else that I can try?
> >
> >Many thanks
> >
> >Ed
> >.
> >
> >On Friday 11 February 2005 12:05 pm, Jonathan Buschmann wrote:
> >>I don't know what Mandrake uses for a dhcp client (fedora uses
> >>dhclient), but maybe you need to run it (again) after starting
> >>wpa_supplicant.
> >>jonathan
> >>
> >>Eduardo Mendes waxed wise and spake thus on 02/11/2005 11:23 AM:
> >>>On Thursday 10 February 2005 05:04 pm, Michael Reilly wrote:
> >>>>Eduardo Mendes wrote:
> >>>>>Hello
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Many thanks but unfortunately it didn't work. The two lights are
> >>>
> >>>blinking
> >>>
> >>>>>together but ifconfig shows that no valid ip was assigned to ath0.
> >>>>
> >>>>My lights both blink together for a second and then they stop
> >
> >blinking
> >
> >>>>together with madwifi.  A few seconds later they blink together
> >
> >again
> >
> >>>and
> >>>
> >>>>then stop again.  Are they blinking together continuously for you?
> >>>
> >>>In my case the lights blink together in equal time intervals.  It
> >
> >seems
> >
> >>>that
> >>>the card is somehow connected to the router but it can't get a valid
> >
> >ip
> >
> >>>address.  I don't know what I am doing wrong.
> >>>
> >>>Here is the output of iwconfig and ifconfig after issuing the
> >
> >commands:
> >>>ifconfig ath0, iwconfig ath0 channel 1, wpa_supplicant
> >>>-c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dmadwifi -iath0 -d
> >>>
> >>>ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"eacghome.airlink"
> >>>         Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412GHz  Access Point:
> >>>00:E0:98:4F:D8:B2
> >>>         Bit Rate:36Mb/s   Tx-Power:50 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
> >>>         Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
> >>>         Encryption key:DF6D-E315-877A-4A16-22FD-239D-A8A8-0B6F
> >>>Security
> >>>mode:restricted
> >>>         Power Management:off
> >>>         Link Quality:49/94  Signal level:-46 dBm  Noise level:-95
> >
> >dBm
> >
> >>>         Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
> >>>         Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:09:5B:C4:1A:E2
> >>>         inet6 addr: fe80::209:5bff:fec4:1ae2/64 Scope:Link
> >>>         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >>>         RX packets:25 errors:19 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:19
> >>>         TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >>>         collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
> >>>         RX bytes:2418 (2.3 Kb)  TX bytes:1194 (1.1 Kb)
> >>>         Interrupt:9 Memory:d0a4a000-d0a5a000
> >>>
> >>>Any hints?
> >>>
> >>>Cheers
> >>>
> >>>Ed
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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Dr. Eduardo Mazoni A. M. Mendes
Departamento de Engenharia Eletr?nica
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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