[ltp] Problems with ipw3945 & wpa_supplicant (Thinkpad z61m - 9450-HAG)

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---- Hamie <hamish@travellingkiwi.com> wrote: 
> Has anyone had wpa_supplicant working with an ipw3945 card and WPA encryption?
> 
> I have a thinkpad z61m, core2Duo 2GB memory. WIth ipw3945 wireless. The 
> ipw3945 software is version 1.1.3 and I'm running vanilla kernel 2.6.19.1, on 
> a gentoo amd64 build.
> 
> With no encryption I can connect to my access point (A linksys 54g - also my 
> neighbours who runs without encryption for some reason :), but if I enable 
> WPA with ether AES or TKIP with a shared key, then wpa_supplicant just sits & 
> spins forever, seeming to fail the authuentication... retrying, failing, 
> retrying etc. The access point is able to be used from other machines 
> (Windoze & Linux, e.g. z60m and a nokia 770) with WPA without any problems 
> more than the normal ones.
> 
> The only other access point i really have to test the ipw3945 against with 
> encryption also fails... But it doesn't work with the Nokia 770 either, so I 
> blame the cisco stuff they have running on it (It require specific cisco 
> software versions even on the windoze boxes, so I'm not hopeful there).
> 
> So... The wpa_supplicant config file just has
> 
> network={
>     ssid="MYSSID"
>     proto=WPA
>     key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> #    pairwise=TKIP
> #    group=TKIP
>     psk="PSKPassword"
>     priority=2
> }
> 
>  and version is
> 
> thunderstruck ~ # wpa_supplicant -v
> wpa_supplicant v0.5.7
> Copyright (c) 2003-2006, Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi> and contributors
> thunderstruck ~ # 
> 
> 
> in it... It can see the access point... Sigh...
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 

Do iwconfig to find out what your wireless is,
probably eth1.

Then do:
dhclient eth1

Using eth1 or whatever iwconfig listed.