On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Arvind P R iinfi1@gmail.com wrote:
hi all, this is my first hit on the mailing list. hope i m posting in the right place. well, i have a dell vostro 1510 laptop with broadcom wifi adapter. n it doesnt work! :( i installed the wifi drivers with ndiswrapper.
iwconfig shows the following.
[root@laptop ~]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"laptop" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.417 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
strangely i cannot find the wlan0 config file in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/!!
[root@laptop ~]# iwlist wlan0 scanning
wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:xx:xx:91:xx:xx ESSID:"thephenomenon" Protocol:IEEE 802.11g Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1) Quality:78/100 Signal level:-46 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm Encryption key:on Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s 18 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s 24 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s Extra:bcn_int=100 Extra:atim=0 IE: WPA Version 1 Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1 Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
i generated a wpa_passphrase and wpa_supplicant.conf is as follows
[root@laptop ~]# cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=wheel
network={ ssid="thephenomenon" key_mgmt=WPA-PSK psk=88a745bb68f4ff4fae41xxxxxxxxxxxxx5b1a66341ced3cxxxxxx2167b218d8c }
now when i do a [root@laptop ~]# wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf Failed to read or parse configuration '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'. [root@laptop ~]#
i get the above error. i have a WPA encryption in my router.
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
sorry for the long post... can someone plz guide me from here?
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Try
yum install wpa_supplicant yum install NetworkManager* service NetworkManager start