This should help... http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Wireless_Configuration_and_Startup#Configuration_using_wpa_supplicant
Craig Sean Crandall wrote: >Hi All, > >I'm having a devil of a time getting my laptop on the school's wireless >network. Here's what I've managed so far: > >I've got a Dell Inspiron 5160. I know the wireless card works with the >network because it works in WinXP without a problem. I also know that >the linux driver is working because I have been able to connect to an >unsecured network, and I can successfully scan this network with iwlist. >The only problem appears to be authentication. > >I've emerged wireless-tools and wpa-supplicant, and I know I have to use >them in some combination, but I can't for the life of me figure out what >goes where. > >The network protocol is 802.1x and I've got an alphabet soup of Open >WEP, PEAP and EAP-MSCHAPv2 that I don't totally understand. I know the >ESSID and I have a valid login. The problem I have is that I have no >idea how to use wpa-supplicant and/or iwconfig to get the thing running. >I've read the help files and man pages, but I'm still confused. Do I >use both in a certain order, or just one? It seems like the WEP needs >an encryption key, but I think I use my password for the MSCHAP >authentication. So where do I get the encryption key from? Is that my >password too? > > Any help anybody could offer would be great. > >Thanks much! > >Sean Crandall > > > -- [email protected] mailing list
