HOWTO: Wireless Security - WPA1, WPA2, LEAP, etc.

[geezerone]

Your symptoms of not connecting and being password-nagged are all too familiar with most here I would guess. I also experienced that signal strength less than 50% results in not being connected or dropping connections.

Change your channel to a lower one, e.g. 7 and see if this helps. I know that I had a high channel and weird as it sounds once lowered on the WAP it worked. I tried changing back and forth between the channels and the wireless would work and not work when I went from low to high channel #.

Good luck.

[wieman01]

wieman01

Once again, thanks for the suggestions.

I did a fresh install of Ubuntu and tried Network manager (with ndiswrapper and the W98 driver) No luck. It showed the networks after a scan, bur would not connect. If I tried connecting using the NM applet, it at least showed the signal strength. However, it would not connect. I would enter the password and it would think a moment and ask for the password, etc.

I then installed wicd. Same thing - showed several networks, including mine. But it wouldn't connect. Also, once wicd was installed, everything got really slow.

I'm at a loss. The card connnects in WPA in WXP, so the card will handle WPA. I've tried both the W98 and XP drivers in ndiswrapper. I didn't see any difference.

One thing...My router is using channel 11. Do I have to specify that somewhere? I noticed that RUtilT has a place to set the channel. Unfortunately, is doesn't appear to handle WPA.

I really don't want to drop bask to WEP. I have another adapter (Belkin F5D7000 Rev 2 - Broadcom BCM4306(?)chipset) if you think that might be worth the effort.

Any suggestions? Are there any reports that might help?

Once again, thanks.

You don't have to set the channel, the driver does that for you.

You could give the Broadcom adapter a shot, there are tutorials out there, some of them well written and easy to follow. Don't throw in the towel just yet, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Good call... don't give in to WEP. It's a security protocol that does not deserve the name.

[hookzilla]

wieman01

I tried changing the channel but that didn't work either. Last chance is to change adapters.

Have you heard of anyone who got this working in Hardy?

And again, thanks for all the help..

[geezerone]

Open a terminal and copy/paste the output of

dmesg

here after authentication fails.

What make/model and chipset of Wireless device are you using?

[hookzilla]

geezerone

I'm using a Trendnet TEW423PI build B.1with Marvell 88w8335 Libertas chipset - W98 Driver Mrv8000c Router is now on channel 11 using WPA TKIP

dmesg output:

user@user-desktop:~$ dmesg
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.24-19-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP Wed Jun 18 14:43:41 UTC 2008 (Ubuntu 2.6.24-19.34-generic)
[    0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000017ff0000 (usable)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000017ff0000 - 0000000017ff3000 (ACPI NVS)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000017ff3000 - 0000000018000000 (ACPI data)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[    0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
[    0.000000] 383MB LOWMEM available.
[    0.000000] found SMP MP-table at 000f49a0
[    0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 98288) 0 entries of 256 used
[    0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[    0.000000]   DMA             0 ->     4096
[    0.000000]   Normal       4096 ->    98288
[    0.000000]   HighMem     98288 ->    98288
[    0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
[    0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[    0.000000]     0:        0 ->    98288
[    0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 98288
[    0.000000]   DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[    0.000000]   DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 735 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 93457 pages, LIFO batch:31
[    0.000000]   HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000] DMI 2.3 present.
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDP signature @ 0xC00F6740 checksum 0
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000F6740, 0014 (r0 FIC   )
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 17FF3000, 0030 (r1 FIC    AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
[    0.000000] ACPI: FACP 17FF3040, 0074 (r1 FIC    AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
[    0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 17FF30C0, 3A32 (r1 FIC    AWRDACPI     1000 MSFT  100000C)
[    0.000000] ACPI: FACS 17FF0000, 0040
[    0.000000] ACPI: DBGP 17FF6B80, 0034 (r1 FIC    AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
[    0.000000] ACPI: APIC 17FF6B00, 0054 (r1 FIC    AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
[    0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
[    0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[    0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[    0.000000] Processor #0 15:0 APIC version 20
[    0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[    0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
[    0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
[    0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
[    0.000000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
[    0.000000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
[    0.000000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
[    0.000000] Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
[    0.000000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[    0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 18000000:e6c00000)
[    0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000
[    0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000f0000
[    0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 97521
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=0CBC0E96BC0E7B0A loop=/ubuntu/disks/root.disk ro quiet splash
[    0.000000] mapped APIC to ffffb000 (fee00000)
[    0.000000] mapped IOAPIC to ffffa000 (fec00000)
[    0.000000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[    0.000000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[    0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
[    0.000000] Detected 1495.704 MHz processor.
[   30.418536] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[   30.418544] console [tty0] enabled
[   30.419265] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[   30.419998] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[   30.438294] Memory: 377348k/393152k available (2177k kernel code, 15188k reserved, 1006k data, 368k init, 0k highmem)
[   30.438311] virtual kernel memory layout:
[   30.438313]     fixmap  : 0xfff4b000 - 0xfffff000   ( 720 kB)
[   30.438315]     pkmap   : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000   (4096 kB)
[   30.438317]     vmalloc : 0xd8800000 - 0xff7fe000   ( 623 MB)
[   30.438319]     lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xd7ff0000   ( 383 MB)
[   30.438321]       .init : 0xc0421000 - 0xc047d000   ( 368 kB)
[   30.438323]       .data : 0xc0320434 - 0xc041bdc4   (1006 kB)
[   30.438325]       .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc0320434   (2177 kB)
[   30.438331] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[   30.438404] SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=64, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[   30.518364] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 2995.24 BogoMIPS (lpj=5990496)
[   30.518413] Security Framework initialized
[   30.518426] SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
[   30.518453] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized
[   30.518462] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
[   30.518479] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[   30.518746] Initializing cgroup subsys ns
[   30.518755] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[   30.518776] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[   30.518801] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
[   30.518807] CPU: L2 cache: 256K
[   30.518812] CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
[   30.518816] CPU: After all inits, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 0000b080 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[   30.518843] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
[   30.518870] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[   30.535078] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[   30.538170] Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed
[   30.538478] Early unpacking initramfs... done
[   31.176558] ACPI: Core revision 20070126
[   31.176667] ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.
[   31.182140] CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1500MHz stepping 0a
[   31.182214] Total of 1 processors activated (2995.24 BogoMIPS).
[   31.182375] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
[   31.182589] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[   31.329718] Brought up 1 CPUs
[   31.329762] CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
[   31.329768]  domain 0: span 01
[   31.329772]   groups: 01
[   31.330206] net_namespace: 64 bytes
[   31.330226] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[   31.331294] Time: 18:32:46  Date: 07/13/08
[   31.331354] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[   31.331845] EISA bus registered
[   31.331892] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[   31.357911] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfaf70, last bus=2
[   31.357916] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[   31.357944] Setting up standard PCI resources
[   31.366162] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
[   31.372045] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[   31.372056] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
[   31.372086] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[   31.383131] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[   31.383501] PCI quirk: region 4000-407f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
[   31.383508] PCI quirk: region 4080-40bf claimed by ICH4 GPIO
[   31.384439] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
[   31.384487] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[   31.384775] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB0._PRT]
[   31.408261] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
[   31.408463] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15)
[   31.408665] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[   31.408861] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
[   31.409057] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[   31.409253] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
[   31.409448] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[   31.409690] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
[   31.410035] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[   31.410110] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[   31.410132] ACPI: bus type pnp registered
[   31.417825] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 17 devices
[   31.417833] ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
[   31.417844] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
[   31.418388] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[   31.418396] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
[   31.449526] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[   31.449531] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[   31.449718] AppArmor: AppArmor Filesystem Enabled
[   31.453504] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
[   31.461617] system 00:00: ioport range 0x280-0x287 has been reserved
[   31.461636] system 00:01: iomem range 0xcc000-0xcffff has been reserved
[   31.461642] system 00:01: iomem range 0xf0000-0xf7fff could not be reserved
[   31.461647] system 00:01: iomem range 0xf8000-0xfbfff could not be reserved
[   31.461652] system 00:01: iomem range 0xfc000-0xfffff could not be reserved
[   31.461658] system 00:01: iomem range 0x17ff0000-0x17ffffff could not be reserved
[   31.461662] system 00:01: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved
[   31.461668] system 00:01: iomem range 0x100000-0x17feffff could not be reserved
[   31.461674] system 00:01: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff could not be reserved
[   31.461679] system 00:01: iomem range 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff could not be reserved
[   31.461684] system 00:01: iomem range 0xffb00000-0xffbfffff could not be reserved
[   31.461689] system 00:01: iomem range 0xfff00000-0xffffffff could not be reserved
[   31.461694] system 00:01: iomem range 0xe0000-0xeffff has been reserved
[   31.461708] system 00:03: ioport range 0x4000-0x40bf could not be reserved
[   31.461720] system 00:04: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
[   31.461725] system 00:04: ioport range 0x800-0x87f has been reserved
[   31.492698] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
[   31.492703]   IO window: disabled.
[   31.492711]   MEM window: ec000000-edffffff
[   31.492717]   PREFETCH window: e0000000-e7ffffff
[   31.492726] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
[   31.492731]   IO window: c000-cfff
[   31.492739]   MEM window: ee000000-efffffff
[   31.492745]   PREFETCH window: disabled.
[   31.492771] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
[   31.492801] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[   31.529611] IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[   31.530095] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[   31.530278] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[   31.530491] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
[   31.530497] TCP reno registered
[   31.541805] checking if image is initramfs...<7>Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
[   32.123769]  it is
[   32.779050] Freeing initrd memory: 7572k freed
[   32.780366] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[   32.780398] audit(1215973967.240:1): initialized
[   32.784858] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[   32.785062] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[   32.785411] io scheduler noop registered
[   32.785417] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[   32.785420] io scheduler deadline registered
[   32.785452] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[   32.785537] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
[   32.786173] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[   33.140389] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[   33.248892] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
[   33.249101] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[   33.249309] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[   33.249704] serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[   33.251397] 00:0a: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[   33.252410] 00:0b: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[   33.253025] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[   33.257452] 0000:02:00.0: ttyS2 at I/O 0xc028 (irq = 16) is a 8250
[   33.259842] 0000:02:00.0: ttyS3 at I/O 0xc040 (irq = 16) is a 8250
[   33.260242] Couldn't register serial port 0000:02:00.0: -28
[   33.261645] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[   33.261820] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input0
[   33.262105] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[   33.265245] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[   33.265256] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[   33.272002] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[   33.272312] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[   33.272338] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 4
[   33.272342] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 5
[   33.272358] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[   33.272366] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[   33.272370] cpuidle: using governor menu
[   33.272569] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[   33.272632] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[   33.272709] registered taskstats version 1
[   33.272877]   Magic number: 0:370:544
[   33.273073] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[   33.273077] EDD information not available.
[   33.274031] Freeing unused kernel memory: 368k freed
[   33.296002] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
[   34.811279] fuse init (API version 7.9)
[   34.850474] ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
[   34.864460] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 2 throttling states)
[   34.873236] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (40 C)
[   36.287161] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[   36.287216] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[   36.306680] SCSI subsystem initialized
[   36.351029] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[   36.438239] 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004)
[   36.438331] 8139cp 0000:02:03.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip
[   36.438340] 8139cp 0000:02:03.0: Try the "8139too" driver instead.
[   36.462509] libata version 3.00 loaded.
[   36.488694] 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28
[   36.488832] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[   36.489791] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xc400, 00:40:ca:b5:62:4c, IRQ 17
[   36.489797] eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100'
[   36.514450] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
[   36.514605] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[D] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[   36.514627] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
[   36.514634] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: UHCI Host Controller
[   36.515344] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[   36.515401] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 18, io base 0x0000d000
[   36.515749] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   36.515798] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[   36.515811] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[   36.616739] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.4[C] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[   36.616764] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.4 to 64
[   36.616771] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: UHCI Host Controller
[   36.616821] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[   36.616862] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: irq 19, io base 0x0000d800
[   36.617123] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   36.617172] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[   36.617185] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[   36.701658] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[   36.720085] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[   36.721282] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.1 to 64
[   36.771469] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.12
[   36.771605] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.1 to 64
[   36.789293] scsi0 : ata_piix
[   36.797845] scsi1 : ata_piix
[   36.799051] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xf000 irq 14
[   36.799057] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xf008 irq 15
[   37.016699] ata1.00: ATA-6: ST3120026A, 3.06, max UDMA/100
[   37.016708] ata1.00: 234441648 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 
[   37.032628] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[   37.517495] ata2.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8163B, 0L23, max UDMA/33
[   37.517544] ata2.01: ATAPI: LG CD-RW CED-8120B, 2.00, max MWDMA2
[   37.687785] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
[   37.859717] ata2.01: configured for MWDMA2
[   37.859992] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3120026A       3.06 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   37.869697] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM            HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B 0L23 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   37.871134] scsi 1:0:1:0: CD-ROM            LG       CD-RW CED-8120B  2.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   38.299150] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[   38.299333] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB)
[   38.299362] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[   38.299367] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   38.299407] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   38.299514] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB)
[   38.299537] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[   38.299542] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   38.299580] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   38.299589]  sda:<4>Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[   38.311193]  sda1
[   38.311327] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[   38.329618] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[   38.329660] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
[   38.329695] scsi 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5
[   38.331236] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 52x/52x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[   38.331247] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[   38.331373] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[   38.346816] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[   38.346944] sr 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
[   39.217236] loop: module loaded
[   39.268373] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[   39.268412] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[   52.708881] Linux agpgart interface v0.102
[   52.854584] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
[   52.924722] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.02 (26-Jul-2007)
[   52.925839] iTCO_wdt: failed to reset NO_REBOOT flag, reboot disabled by hardware
[   52.925857] iTCO_wdt: No card detected
[   53.003537] agpgart: Detected an Intel 845G Chipset.
[   53.008045] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe8000000
[   53.080586] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[   53.172657] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[   53.280327] intel_rng: FWH not detected
[   53.420468] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input2
[   54.036721] input: Power Button (FF) as /devices/virtual/input/input3
[   54.057046] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[   54.057611] input: Power Button (CM) as /devices/virtual/input/input4
[   54.067480] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[   54.067753] input: Sleep Button (CM) as /devices/virtual/input/input5
[   54.079469] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
[   54.650978] ndiswrapper version 1.52 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
[   55.527040] ndiswrapper: driver mrv8000c (Marvell,09/17/2004,3.1.0.19) loaded
[   55.527549] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[   55.530144] ndiswrapper: using IRQ 19
[   55.790538] wlan0: ethernet device 00:40:f4:f7:31:50 using NDIS driver: mrv8000c, version: 0x3000027, NDIS version: 0x500, vendor: 'NDIS Network Adapter', 11AB:1FAA.5.conf
[   55.790567] ndiswrapper (set_iw_encr_mode:717): setting encryption mode to 6 failed (C00000BB)
[   55.790579] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA
[   55.790737] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
[   58.956810] input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6
[   59.068821] parport_pc 00:0c: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
[   59.068888] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
[   59.272113] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[   59.272145] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
[   59.594128] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 54588 usecs
[   59.594136] intel8x0: clocking to 48000
[   62.676556] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[   63.984456] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[   64.934454] EXT3 FS on loop0, internal journal
[   90.927334] Adding 976552k swap on /host/ubuntu/disks/swap.disk.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:976552k
[   91.782055] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[   92.668167] No dock devices found.
[   94.631749] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[   94.631761] apm: overridden by ACPI.
[   94.791438] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[   95.020532] audit(1215988430.280:2): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="a::" denied_mask="a::" name="/dev/tty" pid=4936 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" namespace="default"
[   97.984770] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
[   97.986313] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[   97.986323] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[   97.986331] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[   98.072682] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.9
[   98.072694] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[   98.211486] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[   98.212012] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[   98.212022] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
[   98.689567] eth0: link down
[  110.530266] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[  110.531396] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[  110.532997] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[  110.534012] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[  179.502667] UDF-fs: Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly mount
[  179.628083] UDF-fs INFO UDF 0.9.8.1 (2004/29/09) Mounting volume ' DVD_RECORDER', timestamp 2006/08/06 17:42 (1f10)
user@user-desktop:~$

Thanks for any help you can give.

[ugraham]

I am running Hardy with a linksys WPC54G V2.

I have used these 2 threads:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=324148
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=318539

Using WPA-PSK (TKIP)

it still doesn't work. When I do sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

I get ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: Invalid argument

Can anyone offer any suggestions.

Thanks.

[wesswei]

For WPA1 my example would look like this:

I have never bothered to setup wpa_supplicant outside of "interfaces" because I don't think it is nice. So I cannot give you any advice there. However, I am having a similar issue as you whereby I need to initialize my wireless network at startup, then immediately bring it down & restart it. For some reason the network would remain disconnected if I did not restart it.

So my advice is to follow post #2 and restart the network during the boot process. Not sure if this is a bug but I have not found a solution ever since.

Thanks wieman! I used your post before to get my WPA working for linksys wusb54gv4 but had to manually restart the network EVERY time. I totally missed the second post which explains this bug.

I did this to update the links for all the rc folders.

sudo update-rc.d wireless-networking defaults 40

Thanks again. Very informative how-to...

PS. I'm not sure if you or anyone else had this problem, but when I updated to Hardy and used WPA, my system would sometimes instantly shut down. This did not happen using WEP on hardy. I updated my bios and the kernel as it wouldn't even boot after the shutdown had occurred unless I switched voltage on my computer and cycle power a few times. Hasn't happened since. whew!

[panda2004]

Thanks for your post is very detailed. I'm not sure if you or anyone else had this problem, but when I install Hardy and used WPA, my system would not connect. The wireless without WPA or WEP works fine. But as long as I enabled security on route, wireless doesn't work. (the same machine booted to vista can access the same route with WPA/WEP without any issue.)

I started a post :Wireless with WPA/WEP doesn't work
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...57#post5425857

Any suggestion to my issue?

[ugraham]

I am running Hardy with a linksys WPC54G V2.

I have used these 2 threads:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=324148
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=318539

Using WPA-PSK (TKIP)

it still doesn't work. When I do sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

I get ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: Invalid argument

Can anyone offer any suggestions.




Thanks.

Interestingly enough, I ran up my machine with Opensus 10.3 and followed the ubuntu forums and the Linksys WPC54G V2 works straight away. It is using ndiswrapper 1.9 and wpa_supplicant 0.5.8. Linux kernel 2.6.22.5-31

Being a newbie, how can I get this to work under Ubuntu Hardy. What makes the 2 versions of Linux so different (I assume the kernel)

[sputnikkk]

Is the info in the change log highlited in RED, still true 1 year later, or has it just not been tried since then?

CHANGE LOG:
08/11/2006: Added section "Post this if you are stumped" (SquibT).
08/11/2006: Added sample configuration for WPA2 with DHCP & ESSID broadcast (Wieman01).
08/11/2006: Added sample configuration for WPA1 with DHCP & ESSID broadcast (Wieman01).
08/11/2006: Added section "Tested adapters" (Wieman01).
08/11/2006: Added section "Useful commands" (SquibT).
08/11/2006: Added section "Common stumbling blocks" (Wieman01).
08/11/2006: Changed section "wpa-driver" and added new drivers (Wieman01).
08/11/2006: Added section "Revoking read-permission from group 'others'" (Wieman01).
09/11/2006: Minor changes in layout (Wieman01).
09/11/2006: Added sample configuration for mixed mode (WPA1, WPA2) with DHCP & ESSID broadcast (Wieman01).
09/11/2006: Added experimental sample configuration for LEAP with WEP, DHCP & ESSID broadcast (Wieman01).
09/11/2006: Added section "Install wpa-supplicant" (Wieman01).
10/11/2006: Added experimental sample configuration for TTLS with WEP, DHCP & ESSID broadcast (Wieman01).
15/11/2006: Added experimental sample configuration for EAP-FAST with WPA1/WPA2, DHCP & ESSID broadcast (Wieman01).
04/12/2006: Changed "wpa_passphrase" section & added quotes ("") for encryption keys containing special characters (Wieman01).
04/01/2007: Added various security options (Wieman01).
15/01/2007: Added valid script for EAP-LEAP (Wieman01).
31/01/2007: Added valid script for EAP-PEAP (Wieman01).
21/04/2007: Removed "wpa-conf" for Edgy Eft (Wieman01).
22/04/2007: Simplified section concerning static network settings (Wieman01).
02/05/2007: Added note concerning WPA2 support for Atheros cards & drivers (Wieman01).
13/05/2007: Added note on Ralink drivers (Wieman01).
15/04/2008: Tested with Hardy Heron (Wieman01).