Re: Disconnections

["Jay Strauss" <me heyjay com>]

On 4/19/07, Jay Strauss <me heyjay com> wrote:
> > If you connect and associate manually (e.g., just using
> > wpa_supplicant), do you get the same symptoms?
> >
> > --
> > - Patrick Bogen
> >
>
> I have not experienced the disconnect in the past when I only used
> wpa_supplicant.  Although I have not tried it by itself on the new OS.
>  Shoot, now I have to dig around to figure out how to configure
> wpa_sup to test this out :)
>
> I'll report in a bit
> Jay

I can't seem to figure out how to configure wpasupplicant on it's own
in Debian.  I'm trying to connect to a WPA2 wireless router (dd-wrt).
Below are my configurations and what happens.

Maybe someone could offer a suggestion on setup?

Thanks
Jay

(below are the outputs)

jstrauss-laptop:~# ifup eth0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

eth0: unknown hardware address type 801
eth0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/eth0/
Sending on   LPF/eth0/
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.


jstrauss-laptop:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

iface eth0 inet dhcp
       wpa-driver hostap
       wpa-ssid strausshouse
       wpa-password wirelesspassword
       wpa-key-mgmt    WPA-EAP
       wpa-pairwise TKIP CCMP
       wpa-group TKIP CCMP
       wpa-proto WPA2


jstrauss-laptop:~# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
00-20-E0-89-8F-E2-00-9F-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
         RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:684 (684.0 b)
         Interrupt:11

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:D0:59:83:5F:D2
         inet addr:192.168.28.119  Bcast:192.168.28.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
         inet6 addr: fe80::2d0:59ff:fe83:5fd2/64 Scope:Link
         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:581 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:545 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
         RX bytes:479700 (468.4 KiB)  TX bytes:109840 (107.2 KiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
         inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
         inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
         UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
         RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
         RX bytes:560 (560.0 b)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)

wlan0_ren Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:20:E0:89:8F:E2
         inet6 addr: fe80::220:e0ff:fe89:8fe2/64 Scope:Link
         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
         RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:684 (684.0 b)
         Interrupt:11

jstrauss-laptop:~# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

eth0      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"2WIRE473"
         Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:18:3F:37:C2:A1
         Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3
         Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
         Encryption key:off
         Power Management:off

wlan0_rename  IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"2WIRE473"
         Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:18:3F:37:C2:A1
         Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3
         Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
         Encryption key:off
         Power Management:off
         Link Quality=15/70  Signal level=-81 dBm  Noise level=-97 dBm
         Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:1070  Rx invalid frag:0
         Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:1128   Missed beacon:0

sit0      no wireless extensions.