hi all,<br>this is my first hit on the mailing list. hope i m posting in the right place.<br>well, i have a dell vostro 1510 laptop with broadcom wifi adapter. n it 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 /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 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 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>