Re: [Madwifi-users] How to connect to a wifi network

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Hi Venkatesh,

I got it to work. There was an error in my wpa_supplicant.conf

Thanks,

Michael

On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 11:00:14 -0700
"Venkatesh Joshi" <vj...@ar...> wrote:

>  
> Hi,
> 
> Hmmm ... I have seen the "unknown hardware type 801" message on my
> client too but then it proceeds to request for and obtains an IP w/o
> any issues.
> 
> If you are still facing this issue, could you send the output of the
> following:
> * ifconfig
> * route
> * ping <default gateway>
> * ping www.yahoo.com 
> 
> Thanks,
> Venkatesh
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Werner [mailto:Mic...@gm...] 
> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 1:16 AM
> To: Venkatesh Joshi; mad...@li...
> Subject: Re: RE: [Madwifi-users] How to connect to a wifi network
> with wpa
> 
> Hi,
> 
> that's wrong. I have an dhcp, my wireless router works as one. If I
> connect via cable I get an IP adress. I think the problem is this
> 
> > wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
> > wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801 Listening on
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > Datum: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:42:20 -0700
> > Von: "Venkatesh Joshi" <vj...@ar...>
> > An: "Michael Werner" <mic...@gm...>
> > Betreff: RE: [Madwifi-users] How to connect to a wifi network with
> > wpa
> 
> > 
> > You don't have a DHCP server in your  network.
> > The ath0 interface sends a  serverbroadcast DHCP Discover message. 
> > But, it gets no DHCP Offer messages. This means that there is no
> > DHCP server in the network.
> > 
> > You need to assign a static IP to your interface.
> > Use "ifconfig ath0 <ip-address>".
> > 
> > Make sure that the ip-address corresponds to your subnet and is 
> > reachable from the gateway.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Venkatesh
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Werner [mailto:mic...@gm...]
> > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 4:46 AM
> > To: Venkatesh Joshi; mad...@li...
> > Subject: Re: [Madwifi-users] How to connect to a wifi network with
> > wpa
> > 
> > Thank you for the information. I get:
> > 
> > 
> > root@C3PO:~# dhclient ath0
> > Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6 Copyright 2004-2007 
> > Internet Systems Consortium.
> > All rights reserved.
> > For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
> > 
> > wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
> > wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801 Listening on
> > LPF/ath0/00:1f:e1:62:9f:74
> > Sending on   LPF/ath0/00:1f:e1:62:9f:74
> > Sending on   Socket/fallback
> > DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 
> > DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 
> > DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to
> > 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16 DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to
> > 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 No DHCPOFFERS received.
> > No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Michael
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:55:21 -0700
> > "Venkatesh Joshi" <vj...@ar...> wrote:
> > 
> > > You need to assign an IP address to the card.
> > > 
> > > If dhcp server is present in the network, use "dhclient 
> > > <interface-name>" to get an IP address.
> > > 
> > > Otherwise use the ifconfig command to assign a static IP.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Venkatesh
> > >  
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mad...@li...
> > > [mailto:mad...@li...] On Behalf Of 
> > > Michael Werner
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:21 AM
> > > To: mad...@li...
> > > Subject: [Madwifi-users] How to connect to a wifi network with wpa
> > > 
> > > Hi everybody,
> > > 
> > > I have a hopefully simple question. First I could not get my
> > > onboard atheros-card to work. I solved this with the ticket
> > > #1192. Now my card
> > 
> > > is working, at least I can see my router. This is configured for
> > > use with wpa.
> > > I have read the how-to on madwifi.org and compiled wpa_supplicant.
> > > 
> > > When I now try to start wpa_supplicant I get
> > > 
> > > root@C3PO:/etc# wpa_supplicant -w -Dwext -iath0 
> > > -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf Associated with 00:00:00:00:00:00 
> > > CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
> > > Associated with 00:1c:df:c4:58:19
> > > WPA: CCMP is used, but EAPOL-Key descriptor version (1) is not 2.
> > > WPA: CCMP is used, but EAPOL-Key descriptor version (1) is not 2.
> > > WPA: CCMP is used, but EAPOL-Key descriptor version (1) is not 2.
> > > WPA: CCMP is used, but EAPOL-Key descriptor version (1) is not 2.
> > > CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
> > > Associated with 00:1c:df:c4:58:19
> > > WPA: CCMP is used, but EAPOL-Key descriptor version (1) is not 2.
> > > WPA: CCMP is used, but EAPOL-Key descriptor version (1) is not 2.
> > > WPA: CCMP is used, but EAPOL-Key descriptor version (1) is not 2.
> > > WPA: CCMP is used, but EAPOL-Key descriptor version (1) is not 2.
> > > CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys Trying
> > > to associate with 00:1c:df:c4:58:19 (SSID='yedinet' freq=2412
> > > MHz) Associated with 00:1c:df:c4:58:19
> > > WPA: Key negotiation completed with 00:1c:df:c4:58:19 [PTK=TKIP 
> > > GTK=TKIP] CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:1c:df:c4:58:19 
> > > completed (auth) [id=0 id_str=]
> > > 
> > > I think the last message is ok, but ifconfig shows no ip-adress
> > > at ath0.
> > > 
> > > Using wpa_gui I get
> > > yoda@C3PO:~$ wpa_gui
> > > Failed to open control connection to wpa_supplicant.
> > > PING failed - trying to reconnect
> > > 
> > > nevertheless trying to add my network I get the message "Failed
> > > to enable network in wpa_supplicant configuration"
> > > 
> > > What can I do?
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Michael
> > > 
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