Hi Roger, I changed my router encryption setting to WEP, because my WPA-PSK was giving some problem in my windows too.. WEP is working just fine in both windows and linux. Thanks for your info anyway :) Madhan > [snip> >> >> sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 >> sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 >> Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:0e:35:5b:52:99 >> Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:0e:35:5b:52:99 >> Sending on Socket/fallback >> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 >> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 >> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 >> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13 >> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10 >> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16 >> No DHCPOFFERS received. >> No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. > >> >> [root@localhost]# iwlist wlan0 scan >> wlan0 Scan completed : >> Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:95:2D:06:F2 >> ESSID:"Madhan" >> Protocol:IEEE 802.11g >> Mode:Managed >> Frequency:2.457GHz (Channel 10) >> Quality:0/100 Signal level:-26 dBm Noise >> level:-256 dBm >> Encryption key:on > Hey Madhan, > > until yesterday, i had excatly the same issue, therefore i tested first, > if my wlan-card could connect to the router without any wep or wpa or > whatever. This worked, no problem and was just to make sure, my driver > works right. > > Afterwards, i tried & tried & tried with all the switches that i found > and: finally i got it working with: > > - booting the laptop with the card inserted > - as root, in the shell doing: > wpa_supplicant -Dndiswrapper -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -w > > the wait switch tell the supplicant to wait until a interface comes up. > and then i did: > - ifup wlan0 > > ...this worked (and i wonder, if it's just the -k switch?????????) > > afterwards, i tested it several times the same way, it worked perfect. > Doing some ftp-tests, i have better performance with ndiswrapper than in > windows itself (1800 kbps ndiswrapper, 1600 kbps windoze) in the same > environement... > > Let me know, if this made your card with wpa working. > > > HTH > Roger >
