Hi,<br><br>Some operation n hardware requires root privilege. You may need to start wpa-supplicant as a super user. You can type a "sudo" before your commands and enter the root password after that. You can also type "su -" or "su root" to be a super user.
<br><br>Cheers,<br>Forrest<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 20, 2008 12:38 PM, Shiv Jairam <<a href="mailto:linuxfreak87@gmail.com">linuxfreak87@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="gmail_quote"></span>Hello,<br><br>I'm trying to connect to my school's wireless network:<br><a href="http://www.brooklaw.edu/it/wireless/instructions.pdf" target="_blank">
http://www.brooklaw.edu/it/wireless/instructions.pdf</a><br><br>Here is the wpa_sup config file. Does it look like it reflects the network settings?
<br><br><pre dir="ltr" style="border: 1px inset ; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; text-align: left;">ap_scan=1<br><br>network={<br> ssid="bls"<br> scan_ssid=0<br><br> proto=WPA
<br> key_mgmt=WPA-EAP<br> pairwise=TKIP<br> group=TKIP<br> eap=PEAP<br> identity="username"<br> password="passwd"<br> phase1="peaplabel=1"<br>
<br> phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"<br>}</pre><br>Here are the results when I run wpa_sup using the above config file:<br><br><pre dir="ltr" style="border: 1px inset ; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; text-align: left;">
wpa_supplicant -i eth0 -c /usr/share/wicd/encryption/configurations/000b0e0d7cc4 -D wext<br> <br>ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported<br>WEXT auth param 7 value 0x1 - ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
<br><br>ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Invalid argument<br>ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported<br>ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Invalid argument<br>ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported<br>ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Invalid argument
<br><br>ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported<br>ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Invalid argument<br>ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported<br>WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
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WEXT auth param 5 value 0x1 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported<br>WEXT auth param 7 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported<br>WEXT auth param 5 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
<br><br>.</pre><br clear="all">I would have to explicitly kill the command [C-c] around line "WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0", or else it just sits there. Whats wrong? <br><br>Thank you.<br>-- <br><font color="#888888">
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Shiv Jairam
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