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From: Ben Bacarisse on 9 Jan 2008 18:46
Whiskers <catwheezel(a)operamail.com> writes:

> On 2008-01-09, sk <skodela(a)magicglass.com> wrote:
<snip>
>> Hmm. Using ndiswrapper, under linux to access a wireless access point
>> and setting up network to work thus, I hope is related to linux :-) I
>> suppose I could have said wifi instead of wap.
>
> People put off by the Subject won't get to see the article, no matter how
> 'on topic' it might be ;))

Yes, I binned the whole thread without looking!

> I've changed the Subject to something closer to what your difficulty seems
> to be ;))
>
> I've done some trimming to highlight the points that I think might be
> significant, although I'm no wifi expert (and I've never used Crux).
>
> [...]
>
>>>>> iwlist shows my wap as below.
>>>>>
>>>>> wlan0 Scan completed :
>>>>> Cell 01 - Address: 00:0C:41:D8:27:92
>>>>> ESSID:"x$%^&*"
>>>>> Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
>>>>> Mode:Managed
>>>>> Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
>>>>> Quality:100/100 Signal level:-24 dBm Noise
>>>>> level:-96 dBm
>>>>> Encryption key:on
>>>>> Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
>>>>> Extra:bcn_int=100
>>>>> Extra:atim=0
>
> [...]
>
>>>>> iwconfig shows
>>>>>
>>>>> wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
>>>>> Mode:Auto Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
>>>>> Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=-121 dBm
>>>>> RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
>>>>> Encryption key:off
>>>>> Power Management:off
>>>>> Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
>>>>> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
>>>>> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed
>>>>> beacon:0

These two show at least one clear problem: the access point uses some
form of encryption, but the wlan0 interface has none set.

Can you associate if you turn off all access control at the wireless
access point? I think you need to confirm this before moving on.

What security does the access point require (in normal non-testing)
use? If it is WPA, is wpa_supplicant running and with what settings?
What, if anything, does it say if you run it in debug mode?

--
Ben.
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