rt2500: when using wpa

[a_stranger]

I have got rt2500 working and the wpa working by running this lines:

ifconfig ra0 up
iwconfig ra0 channel 0
iwpriv ra0 set SSID=Gallien
iwpriv ra0 set NetworkType=Infra
iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=TKIP
iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK=passphrase
dhcpcd ra0

but when I restart the computer I lose the wpa and I haft to run the lines again. What should I do to

[BradN]

As a quick solution, you could put the lines in your /etc/conf.d/local.start file, otherwise you would have to edit a net.ethx file in /etc/init.d/ and add the lines to an appropriate location in there (except for the dhcpcd line, as that can be handled by the startup script).

[maca]

I have these lines in a copy of net.eth0 that i called net.ra0
I have statically assigned the IP so its in the section to do with !=DHCP in the script ....
If anyone has a nicer way of doing it .. Id love to hear it ... I have a RT2500 card, but this all seems to work fine ... I reboot/restart it and it all comes up good and proper !

iwconfig ${IFACE} mode Managed
/sbin/ifconfig ${IFACE} mtu 1450 >/dev/null
iwpriv ra0 set SSID=home
iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=TKIP
iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK=****PASSPHRASE***** <----replace with your passphrase


The only thing Im lacking is that ... I cant seem to see any report from the system that I am running the WPA encryption even though I must be cause I still talk to the router ....

is there a switch on iwpriv or something to report what is going on, on the interface ... iwconfig and ifconfig doesnt really show me much.

the only thing that shows me there is encription on is iwlist scan ..... but that only shows the network ... not what is configured locally ??
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[dandelion]

Silly me... I thought we had to use wpa_supplicant for wpa... Anyway, wpa_supplicant bundles so nicely with gentoo's initscripts... Perhaps Uberlord should add some iwpriv magic to the wireless scripts then? Or am I missing something?

[xepk]

Although this should be possible using the iwpriv_ra0 arguments in your /etc/conf.d/net, I never got that working. Here's how I do WPA + rt2500:

I first use a script called pre.ra0 that I have added to the boot runlevel, that looks like this:

[maca]

So you have to reboot in order to restart your network connection ? .... or manually run an extra script ... surely this is what /etc/init.d/net.ra0 or similar is meant for ..... I can see what you doing but restarting you network connection should be as similar as a wired connection as possible, this is just my opinion but given what has been said so far Im happiest with my solution .... in fact your script could be exectuted as part of my init.d scripts and that way It would be run automatically running it out of boot seperately from init seems a but crasy rc-update should be all you need to do to get it in a run-level and out ....

Again this is just my opinion
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[quiver]

Well I don't have a solution, but I do have the reason for why the iwpriv command in the /etc/conf.d/net.ra0 scripts doesn't work... After some discussion with Uberlord, it seems there are two issues, of which one is the real problem. The first issue is that each line of iwpriv_ra0= in the script overwrites the previous, as it's read by bash. You can only have one - of each - argument, no more... So in fact if you had;

iwpriv_ra0=set SSID=Gallien
iwpriv_ra0=set NetworkType=Infra
iwpriv_ra0=set AuthMode=WPAPSK
iwpriv_ra0=set EncrypType=TKIP
iwpriv_ra0=set WPAPSK=passphrase

then it'd keep overwriting and the only line the driver would acknowledge is the last, so it wouldn't know the AuthMode, EncrypType etc, and the connection would fail.

The solution, it would seem is to place all the parameters on the same line, like you can with iwconfig (eg iwconfig ra0 channel 5 essid blah etc etc)... Yet despite the fact that iwconfig, iwpriv, iwlist etc are all supposedly written by the same person, iwpriv only accepts one parameter per line, contrary to the other tools in the package. So you can't stack them all either

So that's the two issues, and the real underlying problem. I'm told the rt2x00 driver will work with the wpa_supplicant shortly, so that's where the developers priorities are... I'll be using xepk's groovy lil script in the meantime, though I'll certainly be keeping up to date on the progress with the rt2500/rt2x00 driver, as disabling SMP to get the rt2500 driver to work was a very sorry loss

[maca]

I have been using the commands I posted since before July this year, I can reboot and the network is initialised out of the run level. You are saying it wont work but it does ... I dont know what to say ... Im using WPA-psk encription on my network and it runs fine .....
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[quiver]

Maca, your script, if I'm not mistaken, is an init.d script, like xepk's, that's why you can add it to a runlevel and it works. So yes, it does work, but as you say;