On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 18:33 +0200, François TOURDE wrote: > > I think you will win on this challenge :) > > I've tried some WPA-PSK configs with wpa_supplicant, and all what I > can have is: > > Oct 22 17:30:49 mersenne kernel: ipw2200: Firmware error detected. > Restarting. > Oct 22 17:31:20 mersenne last message repeated 10 times > Oct 22 17:32:23 mersenne last message repeated 21 times > Oct 22 17:33:24 mersenne last message repeated 20 times > Oct 22 17:34:24 mersenne last message repeated 20 times > Oct 22 17:34:25 mersenne dhclient: receive_packet failed on eth1: Network is > down > > I've the 1.0.4-1 firmware for my ipw2200 card, so I will try (later) > the new one. > > I'm interested by your scripts using wpa_supplicant, it can be very > usefull when I will upgrade to 1.0.6 ipw2200 driver.
I guess the first thing would be to try using the testsupplicant script in whereami >0.3.23 or so. wpa_supplicant is (along with every other thing :-) trying to manage all networks, so the testsupplicant script: - sets the card to encrypted, key ff-ffff-ffff, open. - brings the interface up. - starts wpa_supplicant (or reloads it if it is currently running). - keeps looking to see if encryption is enabled within 15 seconds - either succeeds of gives up. Some things I don't know and would like to work out with this script: - Should it use wpa_cli to figure if wpa_supplicant succeeds? - Should it stop wpa_supplicant if it fails? - Is 15 seconds long enough? Regards, Andrew McMillan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/ PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis St DDI: +64(4)803-2201 MOB: +64(272)DEBIAN OFFICE: +64(4)499-2267 "Elvis is my copilot." -- Cal Keegan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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