Have you tried a plain open network first? Just to eliminate the WPA stuff?
Scott -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [gPXE] WPA2-encrypted wireless booting with ath5k From: Alexander Heinz <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 03/26/2010 10:00 AM > Hello! > > I would like to start with thanking you for the features you have > integrated in the last years. > > Some years ago I experimented with Etherboot/PXELinux but that was long > before gPXE was there. HTTP, iSCSI, AOE and even WiFi ... that is just > amazing! > > I am especially interested in WiFi and hope that you can help me build a > working setup. > > I have downloaded the latest source code snapshot (the tarball linked on > the wiki page) and I have built a PXE bootstrap loader image (.pxe) with > the following command: > > make bin/ath5k.pxe DEBUG=wpa EMBEDDED_IMAGE=/home/user/wifi_berlin.gpxe > > the integrated script looks like this: > #!gpxe > iwlist > iwstat > set net0/ssid mySSID > set net0/key myWPApassphrase > dhcp net0 > kernel http://etherboot.org/gtest/bz2bzImage root=100 > initrd http://etherboot.org/gtest/initrd.bz2 > boot > > my target PC has 2 NICs: > Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) > 168c:001a (rev 01) Atheros AR5005G 802.11abg NIC > > The Realtek NIC which is also running gPXE just chainloads ath5k.pxe. > The output of iwlist and iwstat makes sense (2 WiFi networks incl the > target network are listed). My AP is listed as WPA2. It is configured to > support both, WPA and WPA2. The access is not restricted to certain MAC > addresses. The distance between AP and the wifi client is 3 meters (no > walls in between). > > However the link does not come up. I get the following error: > > Waiting for link-up on net0...WPA 0x2daf8 ALERT: PMKID mismatch in 1/4 > WPA 0x2daa8 ALERT: PMKID mismatch in 1/4 > last message appears 17 times > failed: Permission denied (0x0226603c) > Could not configure net0: Permission denied (0x0226603c) > > I am sorry for not providing a detailed log. This PC does not have any > serial ports, so I cannot use a NULL modem cable to capture the output. > > I have entered the WPA passphrase several times to make sure there is no > typo in it. Can you think of anything else that I could check? > > Thank you very much! > > Best regards, > Alex > _______________________________________________ > gPXE mailing list > [email protected] > http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe > _______________________________________________ gPXE mailing list [email protected] http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe
