wpa_supplicant

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

Preston Crawford

9 Sep 9 Sep

12:37 a.m.

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, centos@911networks.com wrote:

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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.

I'm pulling my hair out as I read this email. I tried getting this working this weekend. Compaq Presario with an Intel ipw2200. Seemed pretty safe. Wanted to get it running with WPA, same as you. I never got it to work and just ended up returning the wireless router (it was malfunctioning anyway, resetting even on the cabled computers) and giving up on it. It was a sad situation. I tried everything, including Ubuntu (which has some good how-tos), but nothing worked. I eventually I talked to some people on #wireless who said WPA wasn't ready for primetime on Linux. I don't know.

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