wireless, WPA, rt2500, AP Fritz!Box SL WLAN .. not working

Hi,
Perhaps somebody here can help me. I'm newbie an and don't
know where to search my configuration fault. My aim: WPA
TKIP, DHCP (the AP Fritz!Box SL WLAN makes DHCP).


rt2500-1.1.0-b3.tar.gz (GPL-Driver) installed.

modprobe rt2500 ->
office:/etc/sysconfig/network # lsmod | grep 2500
rt2500 166052 0


/etc/Wireless/RT2500STA/RT2500STA.dat:

[Default]
CountryRegion=0
WirelessMode=0
SSID=WIRELESS_LAN
NetworkType=Infra
Channel=0
AuthMode=OPEN
EncrypType=TKIP
DefaultKeyID=1
Key1Type=0
Key1Str=0123456789
Key2Type=0
Key2Str=
Key3Type=0
Key3Str=
Key4Type=0
Key4Str=
WPAPSK=haudenlukasallemeineentchen1234567890123
TXBurst=0
TurboRate=0
BGProtection=0
ShortSlot=0
TxRate=0
RTSThreshold=2312
FragThreshold=2312
PSMode=CAM


iwconfig:
ra0 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:"WIRELESS_LAN" Nickname:"office"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
RTS thr=2312 B Fragment thr=2312 B
Encryption key:0123-4567-89 Security modepen
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=-31 dBm Noise level:-192 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


after ifconfig ra0 inet 192.168.178.0 up I get:

office:# ifconfig
[...]
ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:5A:33:1E:C2
inet addr:192.168.178.0 Bcast:192.168.178.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::280:5aff:fe33:1ec2/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1161 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:89 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:53980 (52.7 Kb)
Interrupt:12 Base address:0xc000



office:/etc/sysconfig/network # dhclient ra0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/ra0/00:80:5a:33:1e:c2
Sending on LPF/ra0/00:80:5a:33:1e:c2
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
No DHCPOFFERS received.
Trying recorded lease 192.168.178.23
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

(the recordet lease is from a old WEP-Config, configured
with iwconfig)

The access point is configured with WEB / TKIP.
office:/etc/sysconfig/network # iwlist scanning
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
sit0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
ra0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:04:0E:2B:1B:5A <== my AP!!!
Mode:Managed
ESSID:"WIRELESS_LAN"
Encryption keyn
Channel:3
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-13 dBm Noise
level:-192 dBm



Is the AP reacting?
Are there debug options?
Is my problem a DHCP problem only?

thx
Ekkard

> Perhaps somebody here can help me. I'm newbie an and don't
> know where to search my configuration fault. My aim: WPA
> TKIP, DHCP (the AP Fritz!Box SL WLAN makes DHCP).

Last I looked, the only way to connect to a WPA network with GNU/Linux was
to use the wpa_supplicant daemon. It works with a variety of drivers.


Stefan