Networking :: Wireless Networking with WPA Support

Hello,

I am trying to establish a wireless connection to a WLAN using WPA2 security using DSL embedded 3.3. My wireless LAN card is based on Atheros 5212 and works well under Windows and other Linux distributions. I do realize that I have to start wpa_supplicant using adequate configuration files, etc.

Once wpa_supplicant is started, it establishes the right interface ath0 and tries to connect - it never succeeds. I can see it scan for networks, and it finds the network I am trying to connect to as well. Somewhere along the process there are error messages like

ioctl(IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETMLME): argument list too long

I have tried to search this error message. The main feedback I collected is that this error message might be caused by incompatibility of wireless extensions in the kernel, wireless tools, and the driver (madwifi in this case). The command

iwconfig --version

shows that all three components are based on version 16. According to the author of these components and his website

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html

support for WPA/WPA2 is only included starting with version 18.

My question is if anybody succeeded in connecting to a WPA2 encrypted network using DSL version 3.3. I would be interested in any details and also if he/she got it to work "out of the box".

Any comments are welcome.

Obviously I have used it and others too.
See this thread.

thanks for the reply. I understand that wireless using WPA2 is supported in version 3.3.

Do you have any suggestions as to how to proceed? I have seen a similar post in this forum indicating problems with an Atheros based wireless LAN card and WPA encryption. My wpa_supplicant.conf file works fine with Knoppix 5.01, should it be any different for DSL?

I found a solution for this. See my post "help with DWL-G520 and WPA" for my success with an Atheros card.

thanks for the information. I will give it a try.

On the other hand, this was exactly the reason for my question, if the Atheros card with WPA/WPA2 is supported ¨out of the box¨ with the driver that´s included in the distribution. Your solution points in the direction that something is not working well with the built-in madwifi driver.

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