> >>>Hello, I'm having trouble connecting to APs other than the one at my > >>>home. I use wpa_supplicant and the madwifi-driver (ath0). What can I > >>>do to debug this? Right now all I see is a timeout. Please let me > >>>know if you might be able to help. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>Hi Grant, > >> > >>I will try to get wpa_suppliicant running here at my hotel tonight, and > >>let you know if I learn anything useful. I'm in France, so that would > >>be during the day Friday your time. That is if I have time before > >>drinking or brain cells left afterwards!! > >> > >> > > Well, I didn't have any luck getting wpa_supplicant to connect to an > unencrypted network. From looking at the debug output from both my > prism54 driver and wpa_supplicant, it seems that wpa_supplicant tells > the driver to drop all unencrypted packets, even if key_mgmt is set to > OFF. This behavior might be different with the madwifi driver however. > > I think you will probably have better luck without using > wpa_supplicant. The commands I gave before should work for this (except > I typoed 'eth0' instead of 'ath0' for dhcpcd). You might also have to > add an "ifconfig .. up" at the beginning. So try: > > ifconfig ath0 up > iwconfig ath0 essid "blahblah" > dhcpcd -i ath0 > > Let me know how it goes. > > -Richard > > >Thanks a lot Richard. I'm going to try all of that right away. What > >does it mean when it says it is connected to address: > > > >FF:FF:FF:FF:FF > > > > > > Looks like it is setup for some kind of broadcast...but I'm not sure...I > never saw that in my tests. > > >Also, should passwords not be submitted in a browser over an > >unencrypted wireless network? > > > > > > I'm probably the wrong person to ask about this one...I _believe_ it is > safe as long as it is an "SSL/https" connection (you should have a > 'locked padlock' icon in the bottom right of the firefox window.) > Everything can be broken of course, it is just a matter of time and money. > > -Richard
I took your advice and dropped wpa_supplicant for iwconfig and this sucker is online! Thank you RIchard! I sure learned a lot setting this up. Is my info sent via SSH or SSL (relatively) safe from the owner of the network? I had to map a MAC address to an arbitrary ESSID so I'm not totally sure who I'm connected to. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
