wifi and AP not associated

I've an Atheros Pci Wireless card and i've installed the madwifi
drivers on a debian Sarge.

I try to start the wifi with
# wpa_supplicant -w -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d

And in an other shell:
# wpa_cli status
Selected interface 'ath0'
wpa_state=ASSOCIATING
ip_address=10.0.0.35

# iwconfig
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"mywifi"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442 GHz Access Point:
Not-Associated
[...]

#cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
# WPA-PSK/TKIP

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

network={
ssid="XXX"
scan_ssid="1"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
proto=WPA
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
psk="XXX"
}

What can I do to associate my wifi card to the access point?

"RicercatoreSbadato" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
> network={
> ssid="XXX"
> scan_ssid="1"
> key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> proto=WPA
> pairwise=TKIP
> group=TKIP
> psk="XXX"
> }
>
> What can I do to associate my wifi card to the access point?

You might try taking all the restrictions out. Just leave the
ssid=XXX and the psk=XXX. All I have in mine is the above, plus an
explicit priority so that my laptop favors the home network over any
other open network that may be in range. And yes, I'm running
ath0/madwifi on FC5. Here is my config (with the obvious things
doctored up).

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=10
update_config=1

network={
ssid="example"
psk=df4bf17360949b313536eae84b27b0b27098d76b1f6f03 30f0971394f8f6d0eb
priority=10
}

network={
ssid="any"
key_mgmt=NONE
priority=-1
}

(I'm not sure the second network clause does anything. I saw it in an
example, but even when presented with an open access point it doesn't
seem to do much.)

-wolfgang
--
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/

RicercatoreSbadato <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I've an Atheros Pci Wireless card and i've installed the madwifi
> drivers on a debian Sarge.
>
> I try to start the wifi with
> # wpa_supplicant -w -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d
>
What wpa_supplicant driver driver are you using?
You might try adding -Dmadwifi or -Dwext to select the madwifi or
wireless extensions wpa_supplicant driver.

Jerry
---snip---

but in your example... Do you use the WPA or the WEP protection? I use
WPA!

"RicercatoreSbadato" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
> but in your example... Do you use the WPA or the WEP protection? I use
> WPA!

I use WPA2.

$ wpa_cli status
Selected interface 'ath0'
bssid=00:01:02:03:04:05
ssid=example
pairwise_cipher=CCMP
group_cipher=TKIP
key_mgmt=WPA2-PSK
wpa_state=COMPLETED
ip_address=10.0.0.100

The access point is a WRT54G running Openwrt "White Russian" RC5. The
only choice it offers is WPA2-PSK. Restricting the choices at the
client end seemed like the backwards way to run things since some
attacker could still try to attack the other authentication methods.

-wolfgang
--
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/

Thank you, I'll try asap.

i've tried with the madwifi... i've not yet discovered the solution.
Now i use wep 128bit... tnx