From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L42U4-0007Xe-14 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:05:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 63613E0585; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:05:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx-out.forthnet.gr (mx-out.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.104]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09322E0587 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:05:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx-av-06.forthnet.gr (mx-av.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.27]) by mx-out-05.forthnet.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mAN05mBH020473; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:05:48 +0200 Received: from MX-IN-05.forthnet.gr (mx-in-05.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.30]) by mx-av-06.forthnet.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mAN05mxA031199; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:05:48 +0200 Received: from [192.168.2.7] (adsl16-80.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.143.80]) by MX-IN-05.forthnet.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mAN05jVn010024; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:05:48 +0200 Authentication-Results: MX-IN-05.forthnet.gr smtp.mail=markos.chandras@gmail.com; spf=neutral Authentication-Results: MX-IN-05.forthnet.gr header.from=markos.chandras@gmail.com; sender-id=neutral From: Markos Chandras To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and at&t 2wire gateway Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:05:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: "John Blinka" References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811230205.40456.markos.chandras@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 4bc93ecb-3e02-430b-8e15-abf56634c096 X-Archives-Hash: 7ebc1e93b481a6a9de8ac36e3328153d On Sunday 23 November 2008 01:14:41 John Blinka wrote: > I've recently subscribed to AT&T's u-verse which came with a > 2wire 3800hgv-b wireless gateway. On the windows side, my > dual-booting Dell laptop picked up the signal and connected > trivially. I've had no such success on the linux side. > > The gateway claims to use WPA-PSK authentication and TKIP > encryption. My supplicant.conf file looks like: > > ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant > > network={ > ssid="my_ssid" > psk="my_password" > key_mgmt=WPA-PSK > proto=WPA > pairwise=TKIP > } > > wpa_gui provides the following information for a few seconds: > > adapter: ath0 > network: 0: my_ssid > status: SCANNING > last message: Disconnect event - remove keys > authentication: > encryption: > ssid: > bssid: > ip address: > > then displays: > > adapter: ath0 > network: 0: my_ssid > status: 4WAY_HANDSHAKE > last message: ASSOCIATED WITH 00:22:a4:0d:23:89 > authentication: WPA-PSK > encryption: TKIP > ssid: my_ssid > bssid: 00:22:a4:0d:23:89 > ip address: > > and then cycles between these two sets of information. > > I can't pretend that I understand what's going on, and I haven't > found any enlightenment in web searches. Does anyone know > what this means, where I'm stuck, and how to go forward? > > Thanks for any help, > > John Blinka I would suggest before trying the "hard way", to use Networkmanager and knetworkmanaget. If you have success with that, then you can try the other way Other wifi guis are wlassistant or wifiradar. Give them a try -- Markos Chandras