Intel Pro 2200BG wireless + WPA-SPK issue?
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Mon Dec 20 08:16:34 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 08:24 +0100, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> Madhan Premkumar schrieb:
> [snip]
> > But that is without security, ie
> > router is open to all. But when i set my router to WPA-SPK security, I
> > could not connect thereafter. I dont know whether Intel pro 2200BG driver
> > support WPA-SPK or not.
> [/snip]
>
> Hi Madhan,
>
> I have the same issue using a D-Link DWL-G650+ with ndiswrapper. This
> works quite well, except two issues:
>
> - freezing (think is because of 4-k-stack)
> this is resolvable with some kernels using the 16-k-stack from linuxant
>
> - WPA
> as this d-link-thing never wanted to work well with my barricade under
> wep, i used wpa - this works well under windows. in conjunction with
> linux/ndiswrapper (or perhaps even your card) i installed the
> wpa/wpa2/ieee802.1x-supplicant from here:
> http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/
>
> so, all i had to do is installing ndiswrapper (my card has been
> recognized on boot-up *yipieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*), installing ndiswrapper
> and the supplicant.
>
> All you have to do in the supplicant-config is creating a file called
> .config, containing:
>
> CONFIG_DRIVER_NDISWRAPPER=y
>
> and then do make. copy the executables whereever you want (...and
> whereever you gonna find them again...)
>
> afterwards, create (e.g. in /etc/ a file for your wpa-config), the name
> doesn't matter, and i have the following content:
>
>
> network={
> ssid="home"
> scan_ssid=1
> key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> psk="very secret passphrase"
> }
>
> shouldn't be a problem, as i just use wpa-psk on my smc 2804wbpr-g
> barricade...
>
> but it doesn't yet work, i let you know, when i get it working.. ;-)
>
>
> Just wrote this, that you perhaps get an idea...
>
> Roger
>
With my laptop I am using an AirLink model AWLC3025 802.11g pcmcia card
with ndiswrapper.
I have nothing special loaded except those items specified by the
ndiskwrapper page for configuration.
modprobe.conf contains
alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
options ndiskwrapper if_name=wlan0
(Note that with these two lines you can give the adapter any interface
name you choose. I left it at default.)
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/wlan0 contains
DEVICE=wlan0
IPV6INIT=no
ONBOOT=no
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=
TYPE=Wireless
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=my.preferred.hostname
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
ESSID=myessidname
MODE=Managed
I am using WEP encryption so I also have /etc/sysconfig/network-
scripts/keys-wlan0 which contains a single line with
KEY=<the 26 digit key that matches the key in my access point>
ndiswrapper loads at boot, and the card is activated as soon as I plug
it in. It has worked flawlessly since I installed ndiswrapper with the
windows drivers for that card.
The machine was freezing with the stock kernel, but I installed the 16k
kernel from linuxant and that stopped the freeze issue.
Full configuration information was available from the ndiswrapper page
and it worked on first try.
YMMV
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