Getting WPA2-PSK

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 03:04:55PM +0000, Rui Paulo wrote:
> 
> On 19 Dec 2008, at 14:19, Jordy Dickinson wrote:
> 
>> Hey, I've never used a mailing list before, so forgive me if I'm not doing
>> this right.
>> 
>> I'm trying to set up my network card, but I keep getting this error 
>> message.
>> I type in this:
>> 
>> ifconfig wi0 authmode wpa
>>> 
>> 
>> And I get this:
>> 
>> ieee80211_load_module: load the wlan_xauth module by hand for now.
>>> ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument
>>> 
>> 
>> Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>> 
> 
> You're probably running a custom kernel without the wlan_xauth module built 
> in. Either load it as a module or compile it in your kernel.
> 
> You may also want to use wpa_supplicant instead.

More specifically, setting "authmode wpa" with ifconfig will always be
wrong (unless perhaps someday someone adds a suplicant to the kernel).
If you want WPA to work, you must run wpa_supplicant.

-- Brooks
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