[gentoo-user] wireless newbee needs help

[gentoo-user] wireless newbee needs help

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi,

it's the first time I have to set up a wireless network on a notebook.

How can I find out whether the connection is encrypted or not.

wpa_gui tells me
  Authentication  WPA2-PSK
  Encryption      TKIP

but

iwconfig wlan0
says

Encryption key:off

and on the server (hot spot) I have configure WPA2 personal, encryption 
TKIP and an (ascii) password.

Many thanks for your help,
Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless newbee needs help

[ny6p01]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 06:00:03PM +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> it's the first time I have to set up a wireless network on a notebook.
> 
> How can I find out whether the connection is encrypted or not.
> 
> wpa_gui tells me
>   Authentication  WPA2-PSK
>   Encryption      TKIP
> 
> but
> 
> iwconfig wlan0
> says
> 
> Encryption key:off
> 
> and on the server (hot spot) I have configure WPA2 personal, encryption 
> TKIP and an (ascii) password.
> 
> Many thanks for your help,
> Helmut.
> 

iirc, iwconfig doesn't recognize WPA2, so it looks like you have an
encrypted connection. You can try 'iwlist wlan0 scanning' to confirm this.

Terry

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless newbee needs help

[Per-Erik Westerberg]

tor 2012-02-09 klockan 18:00 +0100 skrev Helmut Jarausch:
> Hi,
> 
> it's the first time I have to set up a wireless network on a notebook.
> 
> How can I find out whether the connection is encrypted or not.
> 
> wpa_gui tells me
>   Authentication  WPA2-PSK
>   Encryption      TKIP
> 
> but
> 
> iwconfig wlan0
> says
> 
> Encryption key:off
> 
> and on the server (hot spot) I have configure WPA2 personal, encryption 
> TKIP and an (ascii) password.
> 
> Many thanks for your help,
> Helmut.
> 

Hi,

I have installed wpa_supplicant and changed the "country" entry
in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and also added a few lines at
the end of the file:

network={
	ssid="my_essid"
	psk="my_ascii_password"
	priority=5
}

Then I created a symbolic link to "/etc/init.d/net.lo" called
"/etc/init.d/net.wlan0" and that was it I think ... also set
"rc_hotplug" to "net.wlan0 !net.*" in "/etc/rc.conf".

That should be all to get wireless networking going if the kernel module
for your network card is loaded and you have the firmware for it in
"/lib/firmware".

Using kernel 3.1.5 at the moment and the carl9170 driver.

  BR / Per-Erik

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless newbee needs help

[James Broadhead]

On 9 February 2012 17:00, Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it's the first time I have to set up a wireless network on a notebook.

Save yourself some hassle and use either wicd or NetworkManager - both
wrap wpa_supplicant, and make for a much smoother mobile experience.