Re: Some progress with wpa_supplicant/madwifi

On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:38:38 GMT, Unruh <unruh-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ignoramus11107 <ignoramus11107@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:25:13 -0700, Nexus7 <ac25kV@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 21, 10:43 pm, Ignoramus25943 <ignoramus25...@NOSPAM.
25943.invalid> wrote:
Very strange. I installed started the new dev version of
wpa_supplicant when I got home. It got to the stage of AUTHENTICATED,
...

You've got a lot of threads on this subject, so I'm not sure what
you've already tried, but...

Can you install network-manager-gnome and nm-applet and let them do
the work? These are Debian package names, so use the ones for your
distribution.

Yes, I did, it did not help much and opened four Network Manager icons
on my Gnome desktop, totally useless.

The issue that I narrowed down to, is that sometimes wpa_supplicant
gets authenticated (and then everything works), and sometimes it does
not (and then wifi does not work).

Yes. But that is of no help
Make sure that you are telling the system to use the same ESSID each time,
and taht that essid actually identifies the router you want to attach to (
eg there may be 12 "linksys" access points near you and your system is
picking one at random).

It is a very good point, but in this case my ESSID is unique. (I love
those linksys essids for war driving)

Once you are sure that you are trying to connect to the same access
point each time and that it is the correct access point, then look
in the logs to see if you are getting messages from
wpa_suppicant. Also make sure that your router actually has the
password you think it has.

It does. While I have not been able to do full isolation/elimination
testing, it seems that wpa_supplicant authenticates better (maybe even
every time) if I say "ifconfig eth0 down" prior to starting it. Which
seems weird, since it is great to be able to run a milti-homed
network. But I can live with it.

I am going to try to integrate it better into my "connect to the best
network available" shell script. It is a sort of a poor man's
NetworkManager. But it does exactly what I want, mounts NFS and samba
shares automatically, etc.

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