Intel Pro 2200BG wireless + WPA-SPK issue?

[Roger Grosswiler]

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> 
> sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
> sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
> Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:0e:35:5b:52:99
> Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:0e:35:5b:52:99
> Sending on   Socket/fallback
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
> No DHCPOFFERS received.
> No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

> 
> [root at localhost]# iwlist wlan0 scan
> wlan0     Scan completed :
>           Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:95:2D:06:F2
>                     ESSID:"Madhan"
>                     Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
>                     Mode:Managed
>                     Frequency:2.457GHz (Channel 10)
>                     Quality:0/100  Signal level:-26 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
>                     Encryption key:on
Hey Madhan,

until yesterday, i had excatly the same issue, therefore i tested first, 
if my wlan-card could connect to the router without any wep or wpa or 
whatever. This worked, no problem and was just to make sure, my driver 
works right.

Afterwards, i tried & tried & tried with all the switches that i found 
and: finally i got it working with:

- booting the laptop with the card inserted
- as root, in the shell doing:
wpa_supplicant -Dndiswrapper -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -w

the wait switch tell the supplicant to wait until a interface comes up. 
and then i did:
- ifup wlan0

...this worked (and i wonder, if it's just the -k switch?????????)

afterwards, i tested it  several times the same way, it worked perfect. 
Doing some ftp-tests, i have better performance with ndiswrapper than in 
windows itself (1800 kbps ndiswrapper, 1600 kbps windoze) in the same 
environement...

Let me know, if this made your card with wpa working.


HTH
Roger