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tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 4944 Location: Australia

Sure, but normally you would try each command one at a time until you know they all work.
Once you know the sequence works, create a new text document (in Geany, for example) with this at the top

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 4944 Location: Australia

Let me add some extra information before you spend too much time fruitlessly.

Forget about the iwpriv command. That is supposed to work around an incompatibility problem between the ath_pci driver and wpa_supplicant, but since we know that you can establish a connection using the Wizard, this problem should not be affecting you.

By examining the wpa_supplicant code in the Wizard (which was written by rarsa) I just remembered an important configuration parameter: ap_scan
You will see that the default ap_scan value in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf is 2. But the value can also be 0 or 1, and I remember that this can be a critical setting. I seem to remember that it relates to scanning by the driver / scanning by wpa_supplicant / no scanning.
rarsa's code has some clever way of working out the optimum value for your driver, but you can just experiment with using 0 and 1.

laptopnewbee · Joined: 19 Aug 2006 Posts: 165

having read the bulk of this thread, and seeing that some seem to still be having trouble, i will add a 'for what it's worth' here.

in 2.13 i was able to use wpa with the atheros chipset using the network wizard (version 2.14.8 ). i also got best connection results using the win98 drivers and ndiswrapper. there is one thing that i had to do before ndiawrapper would work though, and i don't know if it was due to the netgear driver package, or if it is the same with all atheros driver packages. this one thing is that i had to open xterm and use the source command on the .cat file in the package.

friedsonjm · Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 205

After way too much experimentation, I'm up on WPA. Here is what I found with my Atheros-based Dlink G630 card:

1. Can't use an 8-digit key, must be at least 9, or you get the "must be between 8 and 63 digits" error. I'm not talking about using wpa_passphrase, I'm referring to the number of digits in the pre-shared key entry you make in the wizard.

2. WPS-TKIP, sometimes known as WPA personal, does not work. Has to be WPA2. I'm using the 'personal' version, not the 'enterprise' version.

3. The Linux driver in Puppy works at the office.. but not at home! This, despite both routers being Linksys, both on WPA2, etc.

4. Using ndiswrapper, the windoze driver does work with my system at home, in WPA2 mode, with at least a 9-digit key, etc. Note, the .inf file is CVN3AB.inf 16K 08:19:00 13 May 2005.

I'm going to have to see if the Windoze driver will work at work; switching back and forth is more trouble than I want to go through!

YMMV, of course...

jf