thanks for that reply
i didnt know NetworkManager existed as a different service in centos!! all this while i used the network service to start n stop the network services!! i thought network and NetworkManager are one n the same.
thanks for the insight. i m writing this mail while connected to my wireless router thru the wifi :)
thanks a lot
Arvind
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Agile Aspect <agile.aspect@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Arvind P R <iinfi1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi all,
> this is my first hit on the mailing list. hope i m posting in the right
> place.
> well, i have a dell vostro 1510 laptop with broadcom wifi adapter. n it
> doesnt work! :(
> i installed the wifi drivers with ndiswrapper.
>
> iwconfig shows the following.
>
> [root@laptop ~]# iwconfig
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
> sit0 no wireless extensions.
>
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"laptop"
> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.417 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
> Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
> RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
> Encryption key:off
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>
> strangely i cannot find the wlan0 config file in the
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/!!
>
> [root@laptop ~]# iwlist wlan0 scanning
>
> wlan0 Scan completed :
> Cell 01 - Address: 00:xx:xx:91:xx:xx
> ESSID:"thephenomenon"
> Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
> Mode:Managed
> Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
> Quality:78/100 Signal level:-46 dBm Noise level:-96
> dBm
> Encryption key:on
> Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
> 18 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s
> 24 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
> Extra:bcn_int=100
> Extra:atim=0
> IE: WPA Version 1
> Group Cipher : TKIP
> Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
> Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
> IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
> Group Cipher : TKIP
> Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
> Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
>
> i generated a wpa_passphrase and wpa_supplicant.conf is as follows
>
> [root@laptop ~]# cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> ctrl_interface_group=wheel
>
> network={
> ssid="thephenomenon"
> key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> psk=88a745bb68f4ff4fae41xxxxxxxxxxxxx5b1a66341ced3cxxxxxx2167b218d8c
> }
>
> now when i do a
> [root@laptop ~]# wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> Failed to read or parse configuration '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'.
> [root@laptop ~]#
>
> i get the above error. i have a WPA encryption in my router.
>
> infact earlier i used to get a connected status when i tried to connect it
> with wpa_gui once. but later i think i have screwed the config a bit
>
> sorry for the long post... can someone plz guide me from here?
>
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yum install wpa_supplicant
yum install NetworkManager\*
service NetworkManager start
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