WPA encryption state of play
Posted: Fri 11 Aug 2006, 07:48
The have been lots of posts about WPA encryption - and it's got difficult to find out where workingsolutions have been posted - some of the posts are useful discussions that don't seem to have culminated in a solution.
I'm using
Puppy 2.02, Hard Disk install on an HP XE2 laptop.
My network card is Linksys WPC54G (ver1.2)
I've worked manually with NDISWRAPPER, and it all works fine with WEP - but not quite with WPA. But my output from
#iwlist wlan0 scan
looks very promising -
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:0F:B5:BD:0D:3C
ESSID:"davidsnetwork"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-17 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 22 Mb/s
6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=200
Extra:atim=0
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
----------------------------
It sees that the encryption is WPA in TKIP mode.
So I think that there might be an easy next step (optimism) to
supplying the password
bringing up the interface.
Something that I know well enough how to do in Debian
(iwpriv wlan0 set WPAPSK=xxxxxxxxx)
But don't seem to be able to do in Puppy.
I've looked through dozens of posts and not seen an answer.
Can anyone point me please to the post where an answer is provided.
Many thanks
David
I'm using
Puppy 2.02, Hard Disk install on an HP XE2 laptop.
My network card is Linksys WPC54G (ver1.2)
I've worked manually with NDISWRAPPER, and it all works fine with WEP - but not quite with WPA. But my output from
#iwlist wlan0 scan
looks very promising -
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:0F:B5:BD:0D:3C
ESSID:"davidsnetwork"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-17 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 22 Mb/s
6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=200
Extra:atim=0
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
----------------------------
It sees that the encryption is WPA in TKIP mode.
So I think that there might be an easy next step (optimism) to
supplying the password
bringing up the interface.
Something that I know well enough how to do in Debian
(iwpriv wlan0 set WPAPSK=xxxxxxxxx)
But don't seem to be able to do in Puppy.
I've looked through dozens of posts and not seen an answer.
Can anyone point me please to the post where an answer is provided.
Many thanks
David