WPA problem

[James Gray]

On Friday 17 February 2006 23:07, Matt Treml wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to switch my home network from WEP to WPA (for improved security).
> However, when carrying out some testing usign Breezy and wpa_supplicant, I
> found that my laptop would totally lock up each time the supplicant
> attached to the network. Has anyone else experienced this.
>
> I'm running kernel 2.6.12-10-686, using an Intel Centrino vireless NIC
> (ipw) and wpa_supplicant 0.4.5-ubuntu1.

I have the same setup on this lappy I using right now.  I have successfully 
used WPA-PSK networks but I needed to tweak the module a little to disable 
"hwcrypto".  I've had it working with WPA2 (aka, "WPA Enterprise" but haven't 
tried it in a while...mainly coz the admin borked the access points to 
specifically NOT work with non-WindowsXP clients!! Idiot).

All I needed to do was create the file "/etc/modprobe.d/ipw2200" (as root, ie, 
"sudo vi /etc/.../ipw2200"), then put the following line in the file:
options ipw2200 led=1 hwcrypto=0

Now simply unload and reload the driver:
sudo modprobe -rv ipw2200
sudo modprobe -v ipw2200

Now try your WPA network :)  Assuming your wpa_supplicant.conf file is 
onfigured correctly, you should be all set!

HTH,

James
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