On Friday 21 Oct 2011 16:40:01 Lavender wrote: > What!!! I know wpa_supplicant don't support > AES encryption method ,so I use wireless tools...... Who told you that? > So it seems that I have to use wpa_supplicant and > change AES encryption method into TKIP. No you don't, unless the AP is configured to work with WPA only and not WPA2. The latter uses CCMP. > I feel a little depressed :-( Instead of feeling unnecessarily depressed, you may want to spend a few minutes studying the manual files and looking at the example or configuration files of applications that you intend to use: Why do you think that wpa_supplicant does not support AES encryption? The config file which is nicely commented shows: ========================================= # pairwise: list of accepted pairwise (unicast) ciphers for WPA # CCMP = AES in Counter mode with CBC-MAC [RFC 3610, IEEE 802.11i/D7.0] ========================================= So to make your wireless connection work, emerge wpa_supplicant and add something like this in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf: network={ ssid="Rebellion" bssid=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX <--enter the AP MAC address proto=RSN key_mgmt=WPA-PSK pairwise=CCMP auth_alg=OPEN group=CCMP psk="ascii key goes in here" <--use wpa_passphrase to create it priority=5 } To learn how to use wpa_passphrase run: man wpa_passphrase in a terminal. HTH. -- Regards, Mick