On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, centos@911networks.com wrote:
Hi,
I am running Centos 4.1 on a Dell D610 with ipw2200.
Any good howto for running wpa-psk?
I have searched and not found much related to RHEL or CentOS.
Faced with a similar dilemma a couple weeks ago, I just rolled my own
and installed madwifi and wpa_supplicant manually. I'd guess dag or
someone has them in RPM format somewhere.
I built an extremely simple launching script (below) and did minor
tweaking to /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
eapol_version=2
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
network={
ssid="YourNetworkID"
psk="YourObnoxiouslyLongSharedKey"
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}
It's by no means an exemplary system, particularly the init script
which does no error checking and fails to handle return codes
correctly. In the meantime, however, it works....
--
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein@madboa.com <> www.madboa.com
#!/bin/bash
#
# wireless This shell script takes care of starting and stopping
# wireless networking.
#
# chkconfig: - 80 30
# processname: wpa_supplicant
# config: /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
# Source networking configuration.
[ -f /etc/sysconfig/network ] && . /etc/sysconfig/network
# Check that networking is up.
[ "${NETWORKING}" = "no" ] && exit 0
RETVAL=0
fullname=/usr/local/sbin/wpa_supplicant
[ -f "$fullname" ] || exit 0
start() {
echo -n $"Starting wireless interface: "
# load up some modules
/sbin/modprobe -s ath_pci
$fullname -Bq -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -iath0
/sbin/ifup ath0
echo
}
stop() {
echo -n $"Stopping wireless interface: "
# bring down interface
/sbin/ifdown ath0 || :
killproc wpa_supplicant || :
/sbin/modprobe -s -r ath_pci wlan_tkip
echo
}
# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
status)
status wpa_supplicant
RETVAL=$?
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status}"
exit 1
esac
