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Topic: help with DWL-G520 and WPA

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fightie

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Posted: May 09 2007,15:38

I'm using a D-Link DWL-G520 PCI card. The card is auto detected on boot with the madwifi drivers. When I type

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#wpa_supplicant -B -Dmadwifi -i ath0 -c /cdrom/wifi/wpa.conf

There is no error message (no message at all really)
but then

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#pump -i ath0
Operation failed.

I tried using ndiswrapper divers as well, but without success (something about WPA not supported).
wpa.conf is

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ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

network={
ssid="*****"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk="*****"
proto=WPA
}

iwconfig shows my essid and my access point, but no ip address. Any hints on where to go next?

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I was just doing it, you stupid woman. I just put it down, to come here and be reminded by you to do what I'm already doin'. What is the point in reminding me to do what I'm already doing? What is the bloody point? I'm doing it aren't I?

bingo

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Posted: May 09 2007,18:15

I have a similar problem with my Atheros card and support for WPA. Please see my post in this forum. From my experience wpa_supplicant does not show error message when run in the background. If you start it in the foreground and enable debugging, there should be plenty of messages;

wpa_supplicant -dd -Dmadwifi -i ath0 -c /cdrom/wifi/wpa.conf

Look for whether or not your network is found, or other error messages appear.

fightie

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Posted: May 09 2007,20:27

I found a solution (I'm using WPA, not WPA2 like bingo, but it worked for me)

First, rmmod any modules with ath_ (I had ath_hal, ath_pci, and ath_rate_sample I think) to clear out the madwifi drivers. Then use ndiswrapper drivers on the drivers for your card, and wpa_supplicant will work fine with the ndiswrapper drivers. If you do not rmmod the ath drivers first, the ndiswrapper drivers will not take over the hardware, and the wpa_suppilcant will fail.

I think another donation will be in order soon. Great work DSL team.

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I was just doing it, you stupid woman. I just put it down, to come here and be reminded by you to do what I'm already doin'. What is the point in reminding me to do what I'm already doing? What is the bloody point? I'm doing it aren't I?

fightie

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Posted: May 11 2007,18:32

Hmm... since I switched to ndiswrapper with wpasupplicant, I get kernel panics (system freeze + keyboard lights flashing) when transfering files and/or running vnc sessions to DSL. When I switch back to madwifi and wep, no panics.

Panics were on some VNC seesions (DSL is the server, using the mydsl package), and every time I tried copying large (~300M) files via sftp or smb to DSL. It would panic early in the transfer (<100M).

So close, and yet so far...

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I was just doing it, you stupid woman. I just put it down, to come here and be reminded by you to do what I'm already doin'. What is the point in reminding me to do what I'm already doing? What is the bloody point? I'm doing it aren't I?

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