Re: Cannot get wireless connection on Fedora 5

[kraekan westnet com au]

Hi again,

wpa_cli doesn't shown anything except the lack of success. I am bit
surprised this hasn't come up more often. Restricted wep with FC5 I
would have thought was fairly common setup.

I'll try with the latest Intel drivers but can't see that it would
help as wep has been supported well for a long while now. This is the
main thing that is holding me back from jumping to FC5 full time.

Anyone else have any thoughts? I wonder if it's not saving the
setting two gnome properly? What would be saved for restricted wep?

Robert.

>
>---- Original Message ----
>From: bigjoe1008 gmail com
>To: kraekan westnet com au
>Subject: Re: Cannot get wireless connection on Fedora 5
>Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:13:39 -0400
>
>>wpa_supplicant only starts when you attempt to make a connection or
>>scan.  
>>
>>To see it in action run wpa_cli as root.  Then try and connect to an
>>access point using NetworkManager.  the wpa_cli will first say
>failed to
>>connect to the wpa_supplicant daemon but then it will connect when
>>NetworkManager needs it.  If it successfully makes the connection it
>>will stay running, else it shuts it down.
>>
>>I believe that NetworkManager starts wpa_supplicant it configures
>>everything via a communication socket that Dan and others completed
>in
>>wpa_supplicant.  So when NetworkManager starts wpa_supplicant it
>will
>>tell it which network interface to run it against.  
>>
>>--Joe
>>
>>
>>On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 07:58 +0800, kraekan westnet com au wrote:
>>> Hi again,
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the reply. I have re-attached the file in case in
>didn't
>>> get through.
>>> 
>>> >
>>> >---- Original Message ----
>>> >From: gene heskett verizon net
>>> >To: networkmanager-list gnome org
>>> >Subject: Re: Cannot get wireless connection on Fedora 5
>>> >Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:59:48 -0400
>>> >
>>> >>On Friday 28 April 2006 05:17, kraekan westnet com au wrote:
>>> >>>Hi,
>>> >>>
>>> >>that FC5 doesn't by default enable wpa_supplicant, which AIUI,
>has
>>> >to 
>>> >>do with key negotiations.  It might be enlightening to do a
>>> >"chkconfig 
>>> >>--list wpa_supplicant".
>>> 
>>> Checking that, wpa_supplicant is not enabled but starting it
>fails. 
>>> It seems to be looking for wlan0. I can't believe you need to
>>> configure 
>>> wpa_supplicant though? Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of
>>> NetworkManager!
>>> 
>>> The problem I see is that the _key_ gets set OK but the
>_restricted
>>> mode_ does
>>> not. NetworkManager appears to forget that it's been told to you
>the
>>> shared key
>>> rather than open key.
>>> 
>>> I can actually set it with "iwconfig eth1 key restricted" while
>its
>>> connecting and
>>> the connection will then work fine. Hope that's clearer.
>>> 
>>> >>
>>> >>>If there is anything further I can do to help please let me
>know.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>Regards,
>>> >>>
>>> >>>Robert.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>>---- Original Message ----
>>> >>>>From: dcbw redhat com
>>> >>>>To: jlagrue gmail com
>>> >>>>Subject: Re: Cannot get wireless connection on Fedora 5
>>> >>>>Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:53:08 -0400
>>> >>_______________________________________________
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Robert.
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[root localhost ~]# wpa_cli
wpa_cli v0.4.8
Copyright (c) 2004-2005, Jouni Malinen <jkmaline cc hut fi> and contributors

This program is free software. You can distribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.

Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of the
BSD license. See README and COPYING for more details.


Could not connect to wpa_supplicant - re-trying
Selected interface 'eth1'
Connection established.

Interactive mode

> <2>Trying to associate with 00:0f:3d:3d:1d:61 (SSID='birdman' freq=0 MHz)
<2>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
<2>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
<2>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
<2>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
<2>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
<2>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
<2>Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
<2>CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING - signal 15 received
'PING' command timed out.
Connection to wpa_supplicant lost - trying to reconnect