Hello all.
There have been many posts on wifi on this board. Since many of them
are old, I decided to post questions and detail a problem with WPA
encryption. I am running SuSE 10 with an upgraded kernel 2.6.16. I
also installed ndiswrapper 1.13.
So, here comes the first question: I tried installing the bcmw15
driver, which is mentioned everywhere, but I never saw the sacred
"hardware present." So, I installed the netbc564 driver which seems to
be working. The Acer web site had many different drivers for download.
Could somebody comment on the correct driver to download?
Recently, I was configuring a friend's wireless router for WPA (yes,
he was running it totally unsecured). With the above setup, I logged
into the router's web configurator via the Broadcom wifi just fine
(which shows that netbc564 was working, at least partially). I managed
to configure the router for WPA and then, as expected, I lost the wifi
connection because from that point on the connection required WPA
encryption. I tried to configure WPA for the first time with this
/etc/wpa_supplicant file:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
ssid="NETGEAR"
psk="I_will_not_post_it"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
proto=WPA
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
}
With 'ndiswrapper' loaded and the wifi turned on, this is what I get
when I run 'ifup':
presario:~ # ifup wlan0
wlan0 device: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless
LAN Controller (rev 03)
wlan0 starting wpa_supplicant
ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
Starting DHCP Client Daemon on wlan0... . . . . . no IP address yet...
backgrounding.
Since this is my first time with WPA and the previous postings, could
somebody shed some light?
TIA for your time,
Gus Fantanas
PS. Håkan, the wiki seems to be up now.
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