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thomasvk
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 Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:33 pm Post subject: rt2500: please help me configure |
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Hello,
I've tried to use my wireless PCMCIA card with a rt2500 chipset on the wireless network at college but it doens't quite work. On Windows it does work so it's not the card nor the network. I have all kinds of configuration but I just can't figure out how to configure this rt2500 card (I did look in the Gentoo Wiki, but nothing worked). Can anyone please help me?
The following wpa_supplicant config works on other people's laptops (on Gentoo) but with mine it has errors (Operation Not Supported):
| Code: | network={
#ssid="HvA-Wireless"
ssid="eduroam"
key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
eap=TTLS
# Phase1 / outer authentication
identity="pietjep01@hva.nl"
password="geheim123"
# Phase 2 / inner authentication
phase2="auth=PAP"
ca_cert="/etc/ssl/certs/CAhva.pem"
priority=2
} |
(I did put the certificate in the right place  ).
I also have some information from Windows (configured with SecureW2):
| Code: | Network Authentication: Open
Data encryption: WEP
[x] The key is provided for me automatically
[x] Enable IEEE802.1x authentication for this network
EAP type: SecureW2 |
And some extra windows with my username, password and domain.
I hope anyone can help this newbie configure this card. 
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| Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the suggestion. I have now installed ndiswrapper and while loading the 'ndiswrapper' modules I didn't get any errors in dmesg so it seems allright. Now, sorry for my ignorance, but how do I configure it now? Can I still use wpa_supplicant or is wpa_supplicant kind of like the driver in this whole circus? I really can't find any good documentation about the different steps to get this working.
Edit:
Please tell me if I'm right... I still need wpa_supplicant, with the config file posted above (is /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf the good location?) and this in the /etc/conf.d/net file:
| Code: | modules_wlan0=( "wpa_supplicant" )
wpa_supplicant_wlan0=( "-Dndiswrapper" )
wpa_timeout_wlan0=( 25 )
config_wlan0=( "dhcp" )
dhcp_wlan0=( "nontp" ) |
Also, I have 'ln -s /etc/init.d/net.eth0 /etc/init.d/net.wlan0', is this also correct? Sorry for the many questions. If this all is right, I can test it the day after tomorrow at college. |
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thomasvk
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| Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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| UberLord wrote: | | I would drop the timeout myself. |
A friend of mine suggested it but I can't recall why. I shall ask him why it was again and perhaps get it out.
| UberLord wrote: | | wpa_supplicant_eth0 is not an array |
I'm sorry, I don't really understand what you're trying to say here. |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| I see! Thank you very much! I will report tomorrow if it all worked (because then I will go to college). |
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| Well that didn't work, and I don't know why. In 'iwconfig' the ESSID remained empty and it couldn't find an access point but it didn't have any errors anywhere. It doesn't really matter to me anymore because I'm selling this notebook and getting a new one. |
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