On Saturday 01 September 2007 15:07:46 Mel wrote:
> On Saturday 01 September 2007 16:47:49 Xihong Yin wrote:
> > Thanks, I thought it was the problem of the argument. But I still can not
> > connect to my Access Point using wap_supplicant while I can connect by
> > 'ifconfig'. It always connects to a different network which is in the
> > previous DHCP leases. But this network is not what I specified in my
> > /etc/wap_supplicant.conf file.
> >
> > My /etc/wap_supplicant.conf looks like this:
> >
> > network={
> > ssid="home"
> > key_mgmt=NONE
> > wep_key1=1234567890
> > wep_tx_keyidx=1
> > }
>
> Unless that's a typo, it would be /etc/wpa_supplicant not wap.
> Also make sure you don't specify the 0x in wep_key1. Also try wep_key0 and
> wep_tx_keyidx=0. It automagically worked for me on one install.
>
> That said, I don't have much luck with wpa_supplicant either, some cards it
> works some cards it doesn't and the output isn't very informative. Recently
> `ifconfig ath0 up scan' seems to make all network traffic stop, even if
> you're connected through a wire.
Would one use a WEP key in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf ?
Mine looks like this and I have a laptop with built-in Ralink rt2500
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
network={
ssid="myssid"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk=12345979374andalotorletterstoo
}
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