Re: Configure wifi access / Free.Fr / WPA (TKIP/AES)
One thing you might try is using hex instead of clear text for your
password in /etc/network/interfaces. My WPA wouldn't work with the clear
text password in quotes, so I converted it to hex and it came up.
On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 14:03 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am trying a very simple task: connect to my wifi using a my debian box.
> Setup: My wifi box is made by Free.Fr (French ADSL provider). I did
> setup the SSID to be foobar, no broadcast, and security "WPA
> (TKIP+AES)". I hit generate and it gives me a password. I can connect
> using WinXP no problem.
>
> Now if I try to connect with my debian box, I click on the
> network-manager and select 'Connect to Hidden Network', set security
> to 'WPA/WPA2 Personal' and copy paste the password as I would do on
> winxp. It does not connect at all.
> I tried then:
> http://wiki.debian.org/Manual-Howto#AuthenticatewithwpausingPSKTKIP.
> It still does not work and I get (*). What am I doing wrong ? What are
> the tool to understand what is going on wrong ? Should I select
> another type of security ?
>
> Config:
> Linux dietfry 2.6.30-bpo.1-686 #1 SMP Mon Aug 17 14:57:26 UTC 2009
> i686 GNU/Linux
> Wifi (output of lshw)
>
> *-network
> description: Wireless interface
> product: PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection
> vendor: Intel Corporation
> physical id: 0
> bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
> logical name: wmaster0
> version: 61
> serial: 00:21:5c:a0:55:17
> width: 64 bits
> clock: 33MHz
> capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
> logical ethernet physical wireless
> configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn latency=0
> module=iwlagn multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
>
> And software:
> apt-cache policy wpasupplicant
> wpasupplicant:
> Installed: 0.6.4-3
> Candidate: 0.6.4-3
> Version table:
> 0.6.9-3 0
> 200 http://ftp.fr.debian.org testing/main Packages
> 100 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main Packages
> *** 0.6.4-3 0
> 500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org lenny/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>
> Thanks for your help !!
> -Mathieu
>
> (*)
> $ sudo ifup eth0
> ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Operation not supported
> Could not configure driver to use managed mode
> ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: Operation not supported
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Operation not supported
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Operation not supported
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Operation not supported
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Operation not supported
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
> Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
>
> Listening on LPF/eth0/00:21:70:b3:9b:cc
> Sending on LPF/eth0/00:21:70:b3:9b:cc
> Sending on Socket/fallback
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
> No DHCPOFFERS received.
> No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
>
>
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