On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Arvind P R <iinfi1 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at laptop ~]# wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf > Failed to read or parse configuration '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'. > [root at 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? > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Try yum install wpa_supplicant yum install NetworkManager\* service NetworkManager start -- Enjoy global warming while it lasts.