On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Arvind P R <iinfi1 at gmail.com>
wrote:> hi all,
> this is my first hit on the mailing list. hope i m posting in the right
> place.
> well, i have a dell vostro 1510 laptop with broadcom wifi adapter. n it
> doesnt work! :(
> i installed the wifi drivers with ndiswrapper.
>
> iwconfig shows the following.
>
> [root at laptop ~]# iwconfig
> lo??????? no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0????? no wireless extensions.
>
> sit0????? no wireless extensions.
>
> wlan0???? IEEE 802.11g? ESSID:off/any? Nickname:"laptop"
> ????????? Mode:Managed? Frequency:2.417 GHz? Access Point: Not-Associated
> ????????? Bit Rate=54 Mb/s?? Tx-Power:32 dBm
> ????????? RTS thr=2347 B?? Fragment thr=2346 B
> ????????? Encryption key:off
> ????????? Power Management:off
> ????????? Link Quality:0? Signal level:0? Noise level:0
> ????????? Rx invalid nwid:0? Rx invalid crypt:0? Rx invalid frag:0
> ????????? Tx excessive retries:0? Invalid misc:0?? Missed beacon:0
>
> strangely i cannot find the wlan0 config file in the
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/!!
>
> [root at laptop ~]# iwlist wlan0 scanning
>
> wlan0???? Scan completed :
> ????????? Cell 01 - Address: 00:xx:xx:91:xx:xx
> ??????????????????? ESSID:"thephenomenon"
> ??????????????????? Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
> ??????????????????? Mode:Managed
> ??????????????????? Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
> ??????????????????? Quality:78/100? Signal level:-46 dBm? Noise level:-96
> dBm
> ??????????????????? Encryption key:on
> ??????????????????? Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
> ????????????????????????????? 18 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s
> ????????????????????????????? 24 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
> ??????????????????? Extra:bcn_int=100
> ??????????????????? Extra:atim=0
> ??????????????????? IE: WPA Version 1
> ??????????????????????? Group Cipher : TKIP
> ??????????????????????? Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
> ??????????????????????? Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
> ??????????????????? IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
> ??????????????????????? Group Cipher : TKIP
> ??????????????????????? Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
> ??????????????????????? Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
>
> i generated a wpa_passphrase and wpa_supplicant.conf is as follows
>
> [root at laptop ~]# cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> ctrl_interface_group=wheel
>
> network={
> ??????? ssid="thephenomenon"
> ??????? key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> ???????
psk=88a745bb68f4ff4fae41xxxxxxxxxxxxx5b1a66341ced3cxxxxxx2167b218d8c
> }
>
> now when i do a
> [root at laptop ~]# wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0
-c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> Failed to read or parse configuration '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'.
> [root at laptop ~]#
>
> i get the above error. i have a WPA encryption in my router.
>
> infact earlier i used to get a connected status when i tried to connect it
> with wpa_gui once. but later i think i have screwed the config a bit
>
> sorry for the long post... can someone plz guide me from here?
>
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Try
yum install wpa_supplicant
yum install NetworkManager\*
service NetworkManager start
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