Re: How to set up WPA wireless networking

On 12/21/06, Daniel Schepler <schepler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
First of all, I haven't really been able to find a good reference for how to
set up wireless networking and wpasupplicant on Debian, so if there's
something obvious out there that I've missed, I would be glad for pointers.

http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=wpasupplicant
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/312
http://wiki.debian.org/WPA
http://www.vollink.com/gary/deb_wifi.html

So on to the meat: I have been unable to get a consistently working
configuration for my ipw2200 card, on Debian sid running 2.6.18. I only have
one wireless network I ever want to connect to, so my current setup
in /etc/network/interfaces is:

...
auto eth0 eth1 eth2
mapping eth0 eth1 eth2
script /root/get-mac-address.sh
map 00:03:0D:21:5C:2E ethernet
map 00-03-0D-00-25-51-D8-36-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 ieee
map 00:0E:35:AF:45:A6 wireless
...
iface ethernet inet dhcp
...
iface ieee inet manual
...
iface wireless inet dhcp
wpa-ap-scan 1
wpa-scan-ssid 1
wpa-driver wext
wpa-ssid linksys_***
wpa-psk ***

Strangely, this occasionally works, but usually I get a failure to connect.
So, what's wrong with this setup, and what do I need to do to get it working
consistently?

Please reply to me directly, as I'm not subscribed to the list.
--
Daniel Schepler

Isn't wpasupplicant package required? Have you read the links included above?

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Javier


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