[CentOS] Configure wireless USB ethernet

Mon Jan 13 12:19:14 UTC 2014
mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Hi, Ashley,

On 01/11/14 14:37, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Thanks Scott.  Following that page, when I run
>
> wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -cwpa.conf
>
> I get this output:
>
> Trying to associate with e0:46:9a:35:fb:98 (SSID='Nymphadora' freq=2412 MHz)
> ioctl[SIOCSIWFREQ]: Device or resource busy
> Association request to the driver failed
> Associated with e0:46:9a:35:fb:98
> WPA: Key negotiation completed with e0:46:9a:35:fb:98 [PTK=CCMP GTK=CCMP]
> CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to e0:46:9a:35:fb:98 completed (auth)
> [id=0 id_str=]
>
> ... and it just sits there.  Doesn't return to the prompt or anything.  In
> another terminal, I ran dhclient wlan0 which returned to a prompt, however
> now ifconfig shows the interface having an IP given out by the wireless
> router.  Great, we have progress.  However, I'm still stuck at the previous
> terminal with the above mentioned output, and I also need this to happen
> automatically when the system reboots.
>
> Suggestions?
>
In a previous post, you'd mentioned chkconfig'ing NM off, and wpa-supplicant 
on. At this point, have you done  service wpa-supplicant start?

	mark