Christopher Nelson wrote:
> On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 08:59:25PM +0100, Anton Piatek wrote:
> <snip>
> > Of course that is fine for one wireless lan, but I am not sure
> > about the best way to get the wireless card to try several keys and
> > find the one that works on the current hotspot (please let me know
> > if you find a solution to that).
> I think that's where wpasupplicant could come in. You can specify
> multiple network blocks, and I _think_ it tries them in the order
> listed in the file. You would put your most-used network first, etc.
Ok, and the man page tells about priorities as well. This looks
promising.
At present I have /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf set to:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
ssid="name"
psk="pass"
}
And the relevant part of /etc/network/interfaces looks like this:
allow-hotplug eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
As soon as I modprobe ipw3945 the notebook indeed tries to connect to
the access point. However, sometimes this takes several minutes. The
quickest time I have measured were 30 seconds and once it took almost 5
minutes. I'm not sure whether this is to be expected?
Here's some relevant information from "iwlist eth1 scan":
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:13:D3:6C:CC:46
ESSID:"name"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 9 11 6 12 18 24 36 48 54
Quality=88/100 Signal level=-44 dBm Noise level=-44 dBm
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Extra: Last beacon: 1423ms ago
What am I missing?
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Stefan Bellon
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