Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Please don't top post. > On Jan 13, 2014 5:19 AM, "mark" <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> 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=CCMPGTK=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. >> > >> 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? >> > I did it by hand first and then completely restarted the server. In both > cases the service started, but it did not bring the interface up as far as > it connecting to my wireless and getting an IP from the router. > > Do I have to create an ifcfg-wlan0 file for the interface? If so, what > goes in it? How do I tell it what network cell and password? Or does > that information only reside in wpa_supplicant.conf (where it is now.) You might check out this thread: <https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8626> Scroll to the bottom, where they solve it - they've got the ifcfg-wlan0. Also - I haven't done this in years - you might rpm -ql wpa-supplicant; I'd be surprised if they didn't have, maybe /usr/share/wpa-supplicant? anyway, a sample ifcfg-wlan0. mark mark