From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MO6Cv-0005pP-HM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:39:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9CEA0E076C; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:39:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f207.google.com (mail-ew0-f207.google.com [209.85.219.207]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D064E076C for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:39:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy3 with SMTP id 3so274420ewy.34 for ; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:39:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=rOZmd2ozcXXDb5VG+3DBa17SYy0JPpaQ6mxpYYdFfYI=; b=TfvfWEMJIeOeQPR+3Dmhph3JCmCWWDsyI4soS2j9JRob0P+MgvO0eTOoGvBG4NJK9d C2Uv0IqtWIX6TDih3Yf5d4m3EBV7/Sm2XW276QgTxM8k6/bvPZWD5Nzngf5+cz7jDr1j EtCXuMQMwGKVKnnGHF2HDnmLWFmbMhnaWxxlA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=xFG9XcDvZOxDugfZffXMA2DvmmnXZipTLIj8hVBXRFa84rW6o+XOszwGLyxzEF6AKm 48kKuxkM8Of6GkWid2i10paDfQq3ahFDOW2lAkkwIU/9DpScu5AWb7sj3B/Z0U1V3Pcu DMxsfxfHtojH5zBlK/TQ08cTfjNfm+xge3RnQ= Received: by 10.210.136.19 with SMTP id j19mr428601ebd.20.1246955959828; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:39:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet ([196.210.202.145]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm2645785eyg.2.2009.07.07.01.39.18 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:39:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Windows-only wireless AP? Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:37:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Grant References: <49bf44f10907070134n2d871558jd13c09515f47066e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10907070134n2d871558jd13c09515f47066e@mail.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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907071037.36636.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 6b747b7d-d871-403c-9279-7f2ff02b814c X-Archives-Hash: 797ccbdb6ee0ae81b15e8fddb84ac8ce On Tuesday 07 July 2009 10:34:07 Grant wrote: > I'm trying to connect to a WPA2 wireless router via wicd, but I can't > get past the authentication. The owner insists the password is > correct. I've spoken to the administrator and I was told the router > will connect Windows systems, some Mac systems, but no Linux systems. > Does this amount to the typical "Linux is not supported" response, or > could a router actually not work with Linux clients? > > I've also tried to connect via /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 and > wpa_supplicant, but I can't get much information about how it's > failing because it is backgrounded. Could net.wlan0 work even though > wicd fails, and if so, how can I get more info from net.wlan0? It's hard to see how a wireless router could bring that about without changing how WPA2 works (then it isn't really WPA2 anymore is it?). It's a standard protocol. WPA2 does work with wicd - are you getting anything in the logs at all using both methods? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com