WPA configuration problem

[Snakebyte]

Hello,

i have a notebook Acer Travelmate 2490 with a Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless
Chip.

So far everything seems to work fine. I installed BT2 on a small partition beside my WinXP partition.

I have eth0 and eth1 devices (& iwconfig says eth0 is the wireless nic).

After changing my wireless router settings (D-Link DI-524) to WEP security (previously WPA-PSK) i even surfed the internet (very slow, but it worked).
I changed it to WEP, coz the "Wireless Assistant 0.5.5" seems to support only WEP. (or am i wrong?)

For security reasons i want the WPA-PSK setting, so what can i do?

After a lot of searching&browsing i have 2 more specific questions:

Do I need wpa_supplicant for Backtrack2 to get WPA working?

Do I need Ndiswrapper+driver files for Backtrack2 to get WPA working?

Tried both, but got lost in the config files.

Please help and gimme a hint in the right direction...

Thx in advance! (&excuse my bad english)

[andlog6]

Yeah I have similar problem. Anybody know the solution?

[damike]

Hi,

check out my thread about this

cant post urls

its called "Z-Com and WPA"

Mike

[Snakebyte]

Dont help me.

In the script you use wpa_supplicant but i dont find it on my laptop?

[Baxter]

wpa_supplicant
http://www.4shared.com/file/14578667...licanttar.html
rename it to wpa_supplicant.tgz
in your command prompt type installpkg wpa_supplicant.tgz

[Snakebyte]

Thx it worked.
I tried "make install" before, but with "installpkg" it worked.

Now i am connected to my AP (device=wext).
BUT i cant ping anyone in the network or the internet (even the "connected" AP isnt pingable).

And another question: when i use "iwconfig" it says that the device is at 11Mbit/s speed, but it should be 54 MBit/s. Where do i change the speed setting?

Can anyone help out again?

Thx in advance (and thx Baxter for the installpkg tip).

[Baxter]

im not sure why you cant ping the ap but if you want to change your rate from 11mb to 54mb try
iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M
my interface is wlan0 but you use whatever yours is.should work for ya, works for me.