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...ers (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=88a745bb68f4ff4fae41xxxxxxxxxxxxx5b1a66341c...

...ry easy to complete the connection. This needs to be done in the host machine, not in the clients. So far, I've figured out the following: I issued the following iwconfig wlan0 up (Manually I issued iwlist wlan0 scan | grep ESSID and identified the right network ) I then issued wpa_passphrase {ename} "{pass-phrase}" >> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf where {ename} is the name of the network, case sensitive and {pass-phrase} is the same as I would enter in the GUI interface, if I wanted to use it. What more is needed? I really want to avoid GUI interfaces if...

I want to buy a laptop and install CentOS 4 on it and have the wifi work when I'm done. (Hoping for reasonable specs: 2GHz, 40GB drive, 1/2 to 1 GB RAM, CD-ROM, light and thin, 13 or 14 inch screen....) Any recommendations?

...ger_syslog=-1 logger_syslog_level=0 logger_stdout=-1 logger_stdout_level=0 debug=3 dump_file=/tmp/hostapd.dump ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd ctrl_interface_group=wheel ssid=testnet1 macaddr_acl=0 auth_algs=1 #### IEEE 802.1X related config #### ieee8021x=0 #### WPA/IEEE 802.11i config ##### wpa=1 wpa_passphrase=xxx wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK wpa_pairwise=CCMP TKIP ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since...