hi there thanks for that reply i didnt know NetworkManager existed as a different service in centos!! all this while i used the network service to start n stop the network services!! i thought network and NetworkManager are one n the same. thanks for the insight. i m writing this mail while connected to my wireless router thru the wifi :) thanks a lot Arvind On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Agile Aspect <agile.aspect at gmail.com>wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100123/21394560/attachment-0005.html>