Re: No association with WPA and kernel 2.6.23.9

Paolo <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Dec 2007 22:45:49 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.ipw2100.devel
Message-ID <20071206214549.GC5077@localhost>
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:12:40PM +0100, Fran?ois Valenduc wrote:

> ap_scan=0

from sample config:
# 1: wpa_supplicant initiates scanning and AP selection
# 0: driver takes care of scanning, AP selection, and IEEE 802.11 association
#    parameters (e.g., WPA IE generation); this mode can also be used with
#    non-WPA drivers when using IEEE 802.1X mode; do not try to associate with
#    APs (i.e., external program needs to control association)
# 2: like 0, but associate with APs using security policy and SSID (but not
#    BSSID); this can be used, e.g., with ndiswrapper and NDIS driver to
#    enable operation with hidden SSIDs and optimized roaming; in this mode,
#    only the first network block in the configuration file is used and this
#    configuration should have explicit security policy (i.e., only one option
#    in the lists) for key_mgmt, pairwise, group, proto variables

likely you'd be better off with ap_scan=1

> network={
>     ssid="aleblanc42"
>     scan_ssid=1

your ap doesn't seem to have hidden ssid, so: scan_ssid=0 

>     proto=WPA

better leave default (WPA RSN) unless you know otherwise.


--
paolo

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