[Wylug-help] Madwifi and FC6

[John Hodrien]

On Mon, 28 May 2007, Anne Wilson wrote:

> I've installed a wireless card into an FC box.  It is an X-Micro, which
> apparently uses atheros drivers.
>
> I've been following the madwifi instructions, and have got
> the to part of setting WPA-PSK (http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/802.11i).
> The final command listed in this section is
>
> /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -dd -D
> madwifi -iath0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
>
> or is it
>
> /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -dd -Dmadwifi -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf ?
>
> It looks like the second one, though I thought the first more likely.  Either
> way, I just got dozens of lines of 'Invalid ESSID line' messages.
>
> What am I doing wrong?

I have a hunch that you're making you life really hard.  When I set up wpa
with my intel chipset on FC, I installed the wireless driver, then did:

chkconfig NetworkManager on
chkconfig NetworkManagerDispatcher on

/etc/init.d/NetworkManager start
/etc/init.d/NetworkManagerDispatcher start

Then run the network manager gnome applet:

nm-applet

Select the network you want to connect to with that, provide it with your WPA
password.  Admittedly, you might be deliberately avoiding using
NetworkManager.

jh

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