wpa_supplicant fails to associate with an AP

[leguaan]

Hello,
I have problems with wifi.
Connection to an unsecured wifi AP works fine.

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iwconfig wlan0 essid "default"
dhcpcd wlan0

is satisfactory, but when trying to connect to WPA/TKIP protected AP, the computer fails to associate.
I'm using WPA supplicant, and following command

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# wpa_supplicant -Dndiswrapper -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

gives me this output:

Trying to associate with 00:11:09:0c:c9:1d (SSID='Net' freq=2462 MHz)
Association request to the driver failed
Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
Trying to associate with 00:11:09:0c:c9:1d (SSID='Net' freq=2462 MHz)
Association request to the driver failed
Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
Trying to associate with 00:11:09:0c:c9:1d (SSID='Net' freq=2462 MHz)
Association request to the driver failed

and it goes on and on...
I haven't made any changes in wpa_supplicant.conf recently...
the relevant part of it looks like this:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
ap_scan=1

network={
ssid="Net"
scan_ssid=1
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
psk="verysecretpassfrase"
priority=5
}

Can anybody help me? What can be wrong?[/code]

[animous]

I have the same problem. My config looks very much like yours. If you find a solution, please post it! Thanks.

[kds66]

Same problem here. I player with the ap_scan parameter, applying 0, 1 and 2, but nothing works.

[Matrix7]

You might find this thread has a solution:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-51 ... quest.html

In your /etc/conf.d/net replace:

wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dndiswrapper"

with:

wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext"

Hope this helps.

[big-birdy]

Do you use a pc or a notebook? I had the same problem with my notebook. I had to activate the wireless in the bios and installe acer_acpi.
Now my wireless is fine.

Big-birdy

Sorry for my bad english.

[kds66]

I got it finally working. Here's what I have in my config files now.

/etc/conf.d/net:

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...
modules=( "wpa_supplicant" )
wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext"
associate_timeout_wlan0=60

/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:

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ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=10
ap_scan=2
update_config=1

network={
    ...
}

Apparently, ap_scan must be set to 2. I could not get an association with 0 and 1.

[kds66]

The solution in my previous posting works with ndiswrapper-1.28. When I updated to ndiswrapper-1.29 today, wireless support was gone. I am back to 1.28 again. If anybody finds out what to do for 1.29, please drop a line.

[dreadhead]

Replacing -Dndiswrappper with -Dwext worked for me with ndiswrapper-1.29 and 1.30 and Netgear WPN111 (Atheros USB)

Thank you!

My configs:

/etc/conf.d/net:

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modules=( "wpa_supplicant" )
wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext"
wpa_timeout_wlan0=60

/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:

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ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=2
fast_reauth=1

network={
        ssid="myssid"
        scan_ssid=1
        proto=WPA
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        psk="mysecretpassphrase"
        priority=5
}

Hope this helps