Re: [Madwifi-users] Can't get IP from DHCP - using WPA
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From: Tristan B. <tburch@u.washington.edu> - 2005-01-29 06:16:35
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I was pretty busy this week and didn't have time to try out Mike's and Brannon's suggestions until tonight. Michael Renzmann wrote: > Hi. > > Tristan Burch wrote: > >> Everything seems to be configured properly and the debug information >> for wpa_supplicant looks like it's connecting to my router/AP, but I >> can't get an IP from the DHCP server. > > > Does it work when you manually assign an IP that belongs to the correct > IP network? I tried manually assinging it an IP, but that still didn't work. Pings to the router (192.168.50.1) would still timeout. > >> Finally, I try to bring up the ath0 and get the following: /sbin/ifup >> ath0 > > [...] > >> I'm not sure if it's my configuration of wpa_supplicant or something >> else with my system and I'd be grateful if someone could point me in >> the right direction. > > > wpa_supplicant seems to work fine. For me it seems to be more likely > that the problem is related to the configuration used by the "ifup" > tool. I'm not used to the configuration of ifup, but I guess that > specifying > > DHCP_HOSTNAME=192.168.0.50 > > in ifcfg-ath0 could be the solution. I tried specifying everything in ifcofg-atho and still could get it to work (trying it with both DHCP and s static ip). For some reason it still wants to try 192.168.0.1 to get a DHCP address. > >> and wpa_supplicant.conf: > > > #twireless > > network={ > > ssid="twireless" > >> #psk="apt206wireless" >> psk=bec8a8725a777f14be3003e50b3032470fa98095ba9c23c96fc104426d2b723a >> key_mgmt=WPA-PSK WPA-EAP > > > priority=5 > > } > > Refer to http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.madwifi.user/5535 > > Your "psk" definition seems to be wrong. Now wpa_supplicant still > comes up fine as it seems. When you solved the DHCP problem you > probably should take a look at the AP configuration to ensure there is > no (unnoted) security problem. It's just precaution and I most > probably am wrong in this point, but who knows... I changed my wpa_supplicant file to this (using the bare minimum): #twireless network={ ssid="twireless" psk="apt206wireless" #psk=bec8a8725a777f14be3003e50b3032470fa98095ba9c23c96fc104426d2b723a #key_mgmt=WPA-PSK #pairwise=TKIP #group=TKIP #priority=5 } but still couldn't get it to work. > >> Thanks! (sorry for the long email, I was trying to be as detailed as >> possible) > > > That's perfectly ok. I wish that all people would be that verbose when > reporting problems :) > > Bye, Mike I'd really appreciate any others ideas I can try out. Thanks, Tristan |