Wireless WPA question

[Stephen1000000]

I made a wpa_supplicant.conf file with:
network={
ssid="Xploitz Network"
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
psk="-=Xploitz=-"
}

and I replaced my ssid and psk.

I then chmod 777 /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
and
wpa_supplicant -w -Dwext -iwifi0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

and it gave me error messages saying that it could not configure driver to use managed mode and that it failed to initiate AP scan.

My card is a d-link dwl-g650 B5. Any help so I can connect to my network would be appreciated. Thank you.

Stephen

[samsung]

I made a wpa_supplicant.conf file with:
network={
ssid="Xploitz Network"
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
psk="-=Xploitz=-"
}

and I replaced my ssid and psk.

I then chmod 777 /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
and
wpa_supplicant -w -Dwext -iwifi0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

and it gave me error messages saying that it could not configure driver to use managed mode and that it failed to initiate AP scan.

My card is a d-link dwl-g650 B5. Any help so I can connect to my network would be appreciated. Thank you.

Stephen

can you post your error results & all the commands in the exact order, this way we can see where your going wrong. also what type of WPA encryption are you using?

[Stephen1000000]

I am using wpa

I created the wpa_supplicant file with the data in it
then chmod 777 the file then
wpa_supplicant -w -Dwext -iwifi0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

The errors That I was given were
that it could not configure driver to use managed mode and that it failed to initiate AP scan.

[merlin051]

If thats an atheros chipset, shouldnt it be -iath0 instead of -iwifi0 ?

[Stephen1000000]

I tried the ath0 in
wpa_supplicant -w -Dwext -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

and it connected and associated with my network
it said that CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED completed. And then it hangs up.
Why?
Is there a way I can automate this process everytime Backtrack starts up?

Thank you.

Stephen

[shamanvirtuel]

wpa_supplicant -w -Dwext -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B

the -B add the fact this is done in deamon mode , you need also to do a dhcp request in order to get an ip

dhcpcd -n ath0

add this to one of the autostart scripts (the socalled rc scripts)

[Stephen1000000]

which rc script should I add these commands to so my card will connect to my network on boot????