Re: PSK error in wicd-1.7.0

On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 15:21:16 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Mar 2012, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér wrote:
> 
> > Have you made sure that the system works correctly with the driver
> > using wpa_supplicant? I have had driver issues look like WICD
> > issues from time to time. Also, you could consider this if it is a
> > WICD problem that won't fix:
> > http://task3.cc/190/networkmanager-on-slackware-13-37/
> 
> Morten,
> 
>    I just built and installe wpa_supplicant. Didn't specify a .config
> because I don't know what to put in there and the document page
> suggests that running make without the .config file includes
> everything.
> 
>    Having read the document page I still don't know just how to use
> wpa_supplicant. It's installed, but when I invoke 'wicd-client -n' I
> still get authentification failure because of a supposed password
> mis-match.
> 
>    What should I be doing with wpa_supplicant to help find the reason
> for this problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich

Basically, you need it to make a config based on a passphrase, so you
need to call something along the lines of:
wpa_passphrase <ssid> [passphrase]
- and to output it to a file:
wpa_passphrase <ssid> [passphrase] > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

Wpa_supplicant will use the following syntax:
  wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
In that phrase, 
-Dwext specifies the driver wext,
-iwlan0 specifies the interface wlan0
-c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf specifies the config
file /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf, which you can call whatever you want
when you generate it with wpa_passphrase - as long as you reference the
right file in your wpa_supplicant line.

When you have called this command, it will (hopefully) connect to the
network and associate. Once that is in order, you can summon dhcpcd to
get an IP address.

All the best, M

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