How do you configure wpa-psk in FC5?

I've been trying to get wpa-psk working in FC5. I have a Compaq R3000z
with a Broadcom 802.11g chip and a Netgear router. I'm using Ndiswrapper
with the XP driver. Everything works fine with 128 bit WEP however WEP is
nearly worthless for security so I'd like to use WPA which supposedly is
more secure.

wpa_supplicant is installed, I don't know if it's installed by default or
if it got installed when I installed the Ndiswrapper rpm but it's there.

I generated a key with wpa_passphase and added it to
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf,

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel

network={
ssid="MYSSID"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
proto=WPA
#psk="mypassphrase"
psk=abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567 89abcdef0123456789
}

I tried putting both the phrase and the hex string in the pass phrase
box in the Netgear router, I'm not sure what it wants. I think it wants
the phrase but I'm not sure if the phrase to hex translation is standard
or if the string generated by wpa_passprase is unique to it. In any event
neither worked.

Is there something that I need to add to
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 ?

General Schvantzkoph wrote:
> I've been trying to get wpa-psk working in FC5. I have a Compaq R3000z
> with a Broadcom 802.11g chip and a Netgear router. I'm using Ndiswrapper
> with the XP driver. Everything works fine with 128 bit WEP however WEP is
> nearly worthless for security so I'd like to use WPA which supposedly is
> more secure.
>
> wpa_supplicant is installed, I don't know if it's installed by default or
> if it got installed when I installed the Ndiswrapper rpm but it's there.
>
> I generated a key with wpa_passphase and added it to
> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf,
>
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> ctrl_interface_group=wheel
>
> network={
> ssid="MYSSID"
> key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> proto=WPA
> #psk="mypassphrase"
> psk=abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567 89abcdef0123456789
> }
>
> I tried putting both the phrase and the hex string in the pass phrase
> box in the Netgear router, I'm not sure what it wants. I think it wants
> the phrase but I'm not sure if the phrase to hex translation is standard
> or if the string generated by wpa_passprase is unique to it. In any event
> neither worked.
>
> Is there something that I need to add to
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 ?
>
>
>
>

I got WPA up and running some time ago on a FC3 system. I would be
surprised very much, if the same method would not work on an FC5 system.
Anyway you might give it a try. The method I used is neatly described on
the following website:
> http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/auto_connect.shtml

Please check the section on WPA..

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