No link....... sleeping

[illiterate]

And it's really frustrating, I can't work out why, what am I missing?
(I can connect to WEP networks just fine, I can scan and find the WPA2 network, every other device in my home can connect to the WPA2 network.)

I am using the wpi firmware that I downloaded from the wpi man page (I can't post links). It works fine for WEP, but I can't get it to work for WPA2 - it is supported according to the man page

The wpi driver can be configured to use Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK).

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I use

#ifconfig wpi0 nwid AWESOME wpakey AWESOMEST up //I just changed to the BSSID value that ifconfig scan gives me when trying to connect to my homenetwork (end result is the same though).
#dhclient wpi0

to try and connect to the WPA network, and I get no errors except that 'no link..... sleeping' message. I can see the network when doing a 'ifconfig wpi0 scan'

'dmesg' gives

wpi0 at pci12 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG" rev 0x02: msi, MoW2, address 00:19:d2:75:cf:98

and when running 'ifconfig wpi0' I get

wpi0: flags=<BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:19:d2:75:cf:98
priority: 4
groups: wlan
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect
status: no network
ieee80211: nwid""

btw, ifconfig wpi0 scan gives

nwid BLA<1221> chan 1 bssid NUMBERS 42db 54M privacy, short slottime

After trying to connect with the above mentioned I get

wpi0: flags=<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:19:d2:75:cf:98
priority: 4
groups: wlan
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (autoselect mode 11a)
status: no network
ieee80211: nwid NUMBERS wpakey SHITTHATWASALOTOFNUMBERS wpaprotos wpa1,wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers tkip,ccmp wpagroupcipher tkip

What am I missing, doing wrong?

[illiterate]

Aaaaaaaaaand as soon as I posted here I got it working on another WPA2 network, which gives me two things

#1, when I wrote it "nwid AWESOME" I was actually using an incorrect network id >.<
#2, trying to connect now does the following
- If I use "nwid 00:0a:0a:0a:0a:0a" I get the same as previously - Why? If I could connect to other WPA networks I should be able to connect to this one...
- If I use "nwid CORRECTAWESOME" - I get ksh: cannot open 1212: No such file or directory - The networks name is BLA<1212> - I for some idiotic reason thought it was just 1212... Now, how do I add '<' to a network name?

[jggimi]

Your nwid contains the special shell characters < and >. You must either escape them with the \ character, e.g.: BLA\<1221\> or put the nwid in quotes, e.g.: "BLA<1221>".

[illiterate]

I would thank you, but the forum wont let me.
That fixed it.


Still can't figure out why I can't use the BSSID though. What am I missing there?

[jggimi]

The nwid field is the network's SSID. The BSSID is a MAC address.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service...on_.28BSSID.29

[illiterate]

I must've misunderstood something when I was reading about this then.


Again, thanks for the help.

[ocicat]

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