hi there<br>thanks for that reply<br>i didnt know NetworkManager existed as a different service in centos!! all this while i used the network service to start n stop the network services!! i thought network and NetworkManager are one n the same.<br>
<br>thanks for the insight. i m writing this mail while connected to my wireless router thru the wifi :)<br><br>thanks a lot<br>Arvind<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Agile Aspect <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agile.aspect@gmail.com">agile.aspect@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Arvind P R <<a href="mailto:iinfi1@gmail.com">iinfi1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> hi all,<br>
> this is my first hit on the mailing list. hope i m posting in the right<br>
> place.<br>
> well, i have a dell vostro 1510 laptop with broadcom wifi adapter. n it<br>
> doesnt work! :(<br>
> i installed the wifi drivers with ndiswrapper.<br>
><br>
> iwconfig shows the following.<br>
><br>
> [root@laptop ~]# iwconfig<br>
> lo no wireless extensions.<br>
><br>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.<br>
><br>
> sit0 no wireless extensions.<br>
><br>
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"laptop"<br>
> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.417 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated<br>
> Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm<br>
> RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B<br>
> Encryption key:off<br>
> Power Management:off<br>
> Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0<br>
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0<br>
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0<br>
><br>
> strangely i cannot find the wlan0 config file in the<br>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/!!<br>
><br>
> [root@laptop ~]# iwlist wlan0 scanning<br>
><br>
> wlan0 Scan completed :<br>
> Cell 01 - Address: 00:xx:xx:91:xx:xx<br>
> ESSID:"thephenomenon"<br>
> Protocol:IEEE 802.11g<br>
> Mode:Managed<br>
> Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)<br>
> Quality:78/100 Signal level:-46 dBm Noise level:-96<br>
> dBm<br>
> Encryption key:on<br>
> Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s<br>
> 18 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s<br>
> 24 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s<br>
> Extra:bcn_int=100<br>
> Extra:atim=0<br>
> IE: WPA Version 1<br>
> Group Cipher : TKIP<br>
> Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP<br>
> Authentication Suites (1) : PSK<br>
> IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1<br>
> Group Cipher : TKIP<br>
> Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP<br>
> Authentication Suites (1) : PSK<br>
><br>
> i generated a wpa_passphrase and wpa_supplicant.conf is as follows<br>
><br>
> [root@laptop ~]# cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf<br>
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant<br>
> ctrl_interface_group=wheel<br>
><br>
> network={<br>
> ssid="thephenomenon"<br>
> key_mgmt=WPA-PSK<br>
> psk=88a745bb68f4ff4fae41xxxxxxxxxxxxx5b1a66341ced3cxxxxxx2167b218d8c<br>
> }<br>
><br>
> now when i do a<br>
> [root@laptop ~]# wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf<br>
> Failed to read or parse configuration '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'.<br>
> [root@laptop ~]#<br>
><br>
> i get the above error. i have a WPA encryption in my router.<br>
><br>
> infact earlier i used to get a connected status when i tried to connect it<br>
> with wpa_gui once. but later i think i have screwed the config a bit<br>
><br>
> sorry for the long post... can someone plz guide me from here?<br>
><br>
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</div>Try<br>
<br>
yum install wpa_supplicant<br>
yum install NetworkManager\*<br>
service NetworkManager start<br>
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