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 1L43Fs-0003N3-6m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:55:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9A32E04E1; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:55:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.internode.on.net (bld-mail05.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.69]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE7E8E04E1 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lascivio.localnet (unverified [150.101.114.61]) by mail.internode.on.net (SurgeMail 3.8f2) with ESMTP id 34824391-1927428 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:25:12 +1030 (CDT) From: "Noven Purnell-Webb" Organization: magedata To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and at&t 2wire gateway Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:55:09 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (Linux/2.6.26-tuxonice-lascivio; KDE/4.1.3; i686; ; ) References: <200811230205.40456.markos.chandras@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200811230205.40456.markos.chandras@gmail.com> 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: <200811231155.09680.lists@magedata.net> X-Archives-Salt: 5e689275-8903-4ff3-9c0e-dcd32a56ab5f X-Archives-Hash: fdf2acac5640c8f040b0662fe86873eb On Sunday 23 November 2008 11:05:40 Markos Chandras wrote: > 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 Perhps you are authenticating but then not getting a dhcp address. Try adding modules=( "wpa_supplicant" ) wpa_supplicant_ath0="-Dmadwifi" config_ath0=( "dhcp" ) to your /etc/conf.d/net file. - noven