wireless wpa problem in kubuntu 8.10 kde 4.1.2, atheros AR5211

[Guest]

Hi all

Associating/connecting to a WPA encrypted WLAN does not work here.
So I followed this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...Driver/Atheros
And it seemed to work but my hopes got crushed every second reboot. This was not working but hard to reproduce. I always wandered between knetworkmanager and Applications->System->Hardware Drivers.
Even now I have not fully understood, what the probelm was: ath_pci? ath_hal? ath5k?
When I blacklist ath_pci and ath_hal and unblacklist ath5k, my wireless interface is named wlan0 instead of ath0 but the problem persists: the loading bar to connect to the WLAN never reaches the end. Here is the output of knetworkmanager, the part where it gives up is highlighted in red:

Activate Connection /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/Connection/1 on Device /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_05_4e_41_f1_35
Connection::GetSecretsAsync for setting 802-11-wireless-security, id 0
Connection::slotSecretsNeeded 802-11-wireless-security, new: no
WirelessSecurity::toSecretsMap
SendGetSecretsReply1 id 0
SendGetSecretsReply2
Processing Setting 'connection'
ConnectionSetting::toSecretsMap
Setting 'connection' is empty, discarding
Processing Setting 'ipv4'
ConnectionSetting::toSecretsMap
Setting 'ipv4' is empty, discarding
Processing Setting '802-11-wireless'
ConnectionSetting::toSecretsMap
Setting '802-11-wireless' is empty, discarding
Processing Setting '802-11-wireless-security'
WirelessSecurity::toSecretsMap
Attach setting '802-11-wireless-security'
group: <list> <string>tkip</string> <string>ccmp</string> </list>
key-mgmt: <string>wpa-psk</string>
pairwise: <list> <string>tkip</string> <string>ccmp</string> </list>
proto: <list> <string>wpa</string> </list>
psk: <string>ebf950a8c365c400d8f4c6a0f8b1d11c43d304c40c c9abafe1bf9908fdc744df</string>
Processing Setting '802-1x'
IEEE8021x::toSecretsMap
Setting '802-1x' is empty, discarding
Connection::GetSecretsAsync for setting 802-11-wireless-security, id 0
Connection::slotSecretsNeeded 802-11-wireless-security, new: yes
ConnectionStore::slotSecretsNeeded
Storage::hasSecretsStored

where the wpa_passphrase script has been used to convert the ascii code into hex...

And if I try to do it manually using wpa_supplicant -Dwext I get the following:

http://pastebin.com/m40a8cf2d

Seems, that it associates and then loses it again...?
my wpa_supplicant.conf looks like this:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
#eapol_version=1
#ap_scan=2

network={
ssid="Piratenbucht"
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk=my_key_in_hex
}



Thanks for your replies

best regards

[StarWolf]

Re: wireless wpa problem in kubuntu 8.10 kde 4.1.2, atheros AR5211

I don't know if this will help you when i had issues with my belkin card which uses the atheros chipset id downloaded mad wifi , I haven't had to use it since hardy 8.04 but it might help you . you can get it here.
,http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/ you may have to compile it . if so theres much help on that here .