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+ | ====== Discussing Slackware wireless (using the madwifi driver) ====== | ||
+ | OK folks - any comments, feedback about my madwifi package, or the Wiki information, | ||
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+ | 600 might not be the best permission for wpa_supplicant.conf. | ||
+ | The psk is not read on my system when i chmod 600 this file. | ||
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+ | Hi! Pity you don't give any other info. With a mode 600 for the configuration file, wpa_supplicant works perfectly on a lot of other computers. You should check what you are doing out of the ordinary. Do you try to run wpa_supplicant as non-root? The permission is set to prevent non-root users from ' | ||
+ | --- Eric | ||
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+ | as far as i can tell, i'm not doing anything out of the ordinary. | ||
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+ | Using the trunk madwifi drivers with 2.6.26 kernel and wpa_supplicant 0.6.4, I have to use ' | ||
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+ | wpakey -i ath0 -w | ||
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+ | This enables wpa and allows wpa_supplicant to authenticate with my access point. | ||
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+ | Shane |