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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
