Wireless WPA Authentication RC2007-1

[Ronald]

Realy lost now...
Got RC2007-1 running, get signal when scanning with networkmanager, use WPA with long number, automatic DHCP. Give user access to all groups.
And get... Authentication failed....
HELP!!!

Some further info:
 # iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

ra0       RT61 Wireless  ESSID:"<hidden>"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Link Quality=0/100  Signal level:-121 dBm  Noise level:-111 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

 # ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:223 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:223 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:19657 (19.1 Kb)  TX bytes:19657 (19.1 Kb)

 # iwlist scan
lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

ra0       Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

[Jan Gnodde]

Link Quality=0/100  Signal level:-121 dBm  Noise level:-111 dBm

The signal and noise-level are both very low. On my laptop, about 30 meters from the access-point the signal-level is -61dBm and the noislevel -71dBm. My Link Quality is 53/100.
So your computer isn't getting a strong enough signal. Seems like a hardware-problem (bad antenna-connection, maybe?).

Jan.

[Ronald]

It is true that the signal is not that strong but I see my network card (Conceptronic C54Ri - Ralink chipset) as possible connection and within the networkmanager I receive the signal of the acces point (Siemens (Experiabox)).

Shouldn't the message 'Authentication failed' be a respons due to  connection failure and not signal failure?

I will have a look if newer drivers are available and if some manual configuration might help...

[jnmbk]

If anything doesn't help, try using windows drivers with ndiswrapper. It works for one of my friends using a similar wireless card.
http://en.pardus-wiki.org/Using_Windows_wireless_card_drivers
And to get ndiswrapper driver work with wpa, you should do a few additional things: Build latest wireless-tools and network-manager packages from devel repository and install them.

To create packages:
for network-manager: sudo pisi bi http://svn.pardus.org.tr/pardus/devel/desktop/kde/network-manager/pspec.xml
for wireless-tools: sudo pisi bi http://svn.pardus.org.tr/pardus/devel/system/base/wireless-tools/pspec.xml

[Ronald]

Just to keep you posted .... (It might trigger you to come up with a solution...)

Steps taken until now....

Modfied the file RT61A.dat:
SSID=[ESSID]
#NetworkType=Infra
#Channel=1
AuthMode=WPAPSK
EncrypType=TKIP
#DefaultKeyID=1
#Key1Type=0
#Key1Str=
#Key2Type=0
#Key2Str=
#Key3Type=0
#Key3Str=
#Key4Type=0
#Key4Str=
WPAPSK=[26_long_alphanumeric]
#RTSThreshold=2312
#FragThreshold=2312
PSMode=CAM
#RFMON=0

    # ifconfig ra0 down
    # rmmod rt61
    # depmod -a
    # modprobe rt61
    # depmod -a
    # device='ra0'
    # onboot='yes'
    # bootproto='dhcp'
    # startmode='auto'

    # ifconfig ra0 inet up
    # iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

ra0       RT61 Wireless  ESSID:"[ESSID]"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: [ROUTER_HEX_No]
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryptionkey:[hexadecimal_of_26_long_alphanumeric]
          Link Quality=70/100  Signal level:-64 dBm  Noise level:-95 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

    # ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:156 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:156 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:13956 (13.6 Kb)  TX bytes:13956 (13.6 Kb)

ra0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr [WLAN_HEX_No]
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1263 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:76 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:1 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:179042 (174.8 Kb)  TX bytes:430 (430.0 b)
          Interrupt:9

    # ping www.google.nl
ping: unknown host www.google.nl

Helas, close but not good enough ....  

So I will have to surf and look further... (good excuse to work with the PC  :wink: )

[diskmusic]

Ronald, did you allow on your Siemens (Experiabox) the Mac address of your  Conceptronic C54Ri?

[Ronald]

Yes, just checked, the number after HWaddr is the same as 'Allowed clients: MAC address'...

[diskmusic]

Ronald you could try to change your NetworkType from infra to open.

[Ronald]

Thanks 'diskmusic',

The #NetworkType=Infra was not active in the file, but I activated it by deleting the # in front of it and set Infra to Open... No luck...
 :?

Keep you posted...

(By the way in my mail with 'Modfied the file RT61A.dat', I forgot to mention that  from '#ifconfig ra0' down it concerns commands as SU)

[Ronald]

File RT61A.dat:
# Copy this file to /etc/Wireless/RT61STA/rt61sta.dat
# This file is a binary file and will be read on loading rt2500.o module.

[Default]
CountryRegion=0
CountryRegionABand=7
WirelessMode=0
TxBurst=0
PktAggregate=0
TurboRate=0
WmmCapable=0
AckPolicy1=0
AckPolicy2=0
AckPolicy3=0
AckPolicy4=0
BGProtection=0
IEEE80211H=0
TxRate=0
RoamThreshold=75
PSMode=CAM
TxPreamble=0
FastRoaming=0

# All parameters below can be set by iwconfig in the if-pre scripts
# if required or enabled here if you wish
# Anything enabled here will be used when EVEN the net interface is brought up
# this will undo any iwconfig pre-up settings.

SSID=[***]
NetworkType=Infra
Channel=1
AuthMode=WPAPSK
EncrypType=TKIP
DefaultKeyID=1
#Key1Type=0
#Key1Str=
#Key2Type=0
#Key2Str=
#Key3Type=0
#Key3Str=
#Key4Type=0
#Key4Str=
WPAPSK=[***]
#RTSThreshold=2312
#FragThreshold=2312
PSMode=CAM
#RFMON=0


Shell - Konsole and commands...

*** *** # ifconfig ra0 down
*** *** # rmmod rt61
*** *** # depmod -a
*** *** # modprobe rt61
*** *** # depmod -a
*** *** # device='ra0'
*** *** # onboot='yes'
*** *** # bootproto='dhcp'
*** *** # startmode='auto'

*** *** # ifconfig ra0 inet up
*** *** # iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

ra0       RT61 Wireless  ESSID:"[***]"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: [***]
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryptionkey:[***]
          Link Quality=70/100  Signal level:-64 dBm  Noise level:-95 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0


*** *** # ifconfig ra0 192.168.2.3 up

*** *** # ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:69 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:69 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:5945 (5.8 Kb)  TX bytes:5945 (5.8 Kb)

ra0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr [***]
          inet addr:192.168.2.3  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:42150 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5033 errors:1 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:1237 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:5483913 (5.2 Mb)  TX bytes:514362 (502.3 Kb)
          Interrupt:9

Now I try to ping within my 'Home' network to another pc:

*** *** # ping -c 2 192.168.2.2
PING 192.168.2.2 (192.168.2.2) from 192.168.2.3 : 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.2.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=15.9 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=2.38 ms

--- 192.168.2.2 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% loss, time 999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.382/9.165/15.948/6.783 ms

Looking good ...

And now to the outside world:

*** *** # ping -c 2 www.google.nl
ping: unknown host www.google.nl


Bummer ...  
 

[Ronald]

I HAVE GOT IT:        

And last step, command in Konsole:

*** *** # route add default gw 192.168.2.1

Now its working!

But remains 1 question how can I boot the system and prevent to perform these commands?


*** *** # ifconfig ra0 inet up
*** *** # ifconfig ra0 192.168.2.4 up
*** *** # route add default gw 192.168.2.1

[Jan Gnodde]

But remains 1 question how can I boot the system and prevent to perform these commands?


*** *** # ifconfig ra0 inet up
*** *** # ifconfig ra0 192.168.2.4 up
*** *** # route add default gw 192.168.2.1

Put those commands in the file /etc/conf.d/local.start

Jan.

[Ronald]

Thanks Gnodde,

Any idea what may be the cause of this? Why is the networkmanager not able to perform this action? Has it got to do with the use of DHCP?

This information is merely to fullfill my curiosity...

Thanks,
Ronald.