Re: [SLUG] Wireless on iBook G4

[Sven Peters <sven.peters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

G'Day Alan,

What's in your /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf?
Try to start your WIFI manually by 

sudo wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -D <driver>
-c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd

and watch the output for errors.

Cheers,
Sven

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 11:48 +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote:
> G'day,
> 
> Trying to get the wireless working on my iBook G4 running Debian Etch,
> Gnome, Network Manager bcm43xx and wpa_supplicant.
> 
> I can connect to open networks, so the bcm43xx is working, but when I
> tried a WPA network this morning I get (from /var/log/messages:
> 
> Apr  3 10:42:13 misty kernel: SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed
> with 00:18:4d:09:a9:9c 
> Apr  3 10:42:17 misty kernel: bcm43xx: set
> security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0 
> Apr  3 10:42:17 misty last message repeated 4 times Apr  3 10:42:17
> misty kernel: SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed with
> 00:18:4d:09:a9:9c 
> Apr  3 10:42:20 misty kernel: bcm43xx: set security
> called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0 
> Apr  3 10:42:20 misty
> last message repeated 5 times
> 
> And then it gives up.
> 
> What should I be looking for?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> Alan
> 
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