Problems with WPA-PSK and madwifi driver

Eduardo Mendes emmendes at cpdee.ufmg.br
Fri Feb 11 05:23:25 EST 2005


On Thursday 10 February 2005 05:04 pm, Michael Reilly wrote:
> Eduardo Mendes wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Many thanks but unfortunately it didn't work. The two lights are blinking
> > together but ifconfig shows that no valid ip was assigned to ath0.
>
> My lights both blink together for a second and then they stop blinking
> together with madwifi.  A few seconds later they blink together again and
> then stop again.  Are they blinking together continuously for you?
>

In my case the lights blink together in equal time intervals.  It seems that 
the card is somehow connected to the router but it can't get a valid ip 
address.  I don't know what I am doing wrong.

Here is the output of iwconfig and ifconfig after issuing the commands: 
ifconfig ath0, iwconfig ath0 channel 1, wpa_supplicant 
-c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dmadwifi -iath0 -d

ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"eacghome.airlink"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412GHz  Access Point: 00:E0:98:4F:D8:B2
          Bit Rate:36Mb/s   Tx-Power:50 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:DF6D-E315-877A-4A16-22FD-239D-A8A8-0B6F   Security 
mode:restricted
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:49/94  Signal level:-46 dBm  Noise level:-95 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0



ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:09:5B:C4:1A:E2
          inet6 addr: fe80::209:5bff:fec4:1ae2/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:25 errors:19 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:19
          TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
          RX bytes:2418 (2.3 Kb)  TX bytes:1194 (1.1 Kb)
          Interrupt:9 Memory:d0a4a000-d0a5a000

Any hints?

Cheers

Ed






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