Hello.
I got a laptop running Red Hat EL 5
running a 2.6.18-53.el5 kernel. It has the Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG
Wireless card which uses Ipw2200 driver. After two long days of
searching/trying I still can not get this laptop to connect to the
company's wireless router. Network Manager keeps failing. The manager sees the wireless AP unit I want to connect too. I click on it and I get a passphase prompt. The manager knows the encryption os the wireless router is running WPA and has it already selected. But once I enter in the passphrase the manager sits there for about 20 secs and just returns the passpharse prompt. I am typing the passphrase into the login
prompt in normal ascii form, its not in hex/encrypted. I assume this means login failed. I always get the passpharse prompt returned to me.
I do have the wpa_suppliment installed and the ipw2200 driver is seen in lsmod. I guess the best first question to ask is what are the exact steps in getting the Network Manager to be able to "talk" to routers using the WPS-PSK encryption. The card does successfully connect to the wireless router in Windows XP, which is on another parition.
ipw2200 Version: 1.2.0
ipw2200 firmware v 3.0
Ieee802.11
, was already installed with
the system
wpa_supplicant v0.4.8
The wireless card is detected and it
does see two routers, here is the one I need to connect too
Iwlist Report on router:
Cell 02 - Address: a mac
address
ESSID:"GUESTS"
Protocol:IEEE
802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:1
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2
Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s;
12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s;
54 Mb/s
Quality=77/100
Signal level=-52 dBm
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher :
TKIP
Pairwise
Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication
Suites (1) : PSK
Extra: Last beacon:
16ms ago
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=rd
network={
ssid="GUESTS"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
proto=WPA
psk="*"
pairwise=TKIP CCMP
group=TKIP CCMP WEP104 WEP40
priority=5
}
/etc/sysconf/wpa_supplicant file:
# wlan0 and wifi0
# INTERFACES="-iwlan0 -iwifi0"
# wireless card is on eth1
INTERFACES="-ieth1"
# ndiswrapper and prism
# DRIVERS="-Dndiswrapper -Dprism"
# Driver for card is ipw2200, uses wext
DRIVERS="-Dwext"
/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth1:
# Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless
2915ABG Network Connection
DEVICE=eth1
>BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=a mac address
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
TYPE=Wireless
USERCTL=yes
IPV6INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
ESSID=
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Managed
RATE=Auto
If any other information is needed, just ask.
Thanks.
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