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<P>Hi </P>
<P>Last night I downloaded driverloader, wpa_supplicant and the Dell drivers (the versions on the linuxant website) for use on my Mandrake 10.1 install running on a Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop (Dells truemobile 1300) chipset and to be used connecting to a USR018054 wireless router. Both driverloader and wpa_supplicant were compiled from source as although the base version of kernel I'm using is supported by the RPM the fact that mines an SMP version was not and so the RPM refused to install. </P>
<P>If I disable WPA then the machine connects to the router and succesfully gains an IP address - the base installation would seem to working correctly. However when I re-enable WPA it all starts to fall apart. </P>
<P>The routers logs shows the PC succesfully authenticating to the router every 5 seconds continuously until I take the interface down. Any network access attempts report destination unreachable. </P>
<P>In the dmesg section of dldrconfig debug output there are a number repititions of lines saying: </P>
<P>eth2: New link status: Connected (0001) <BR>eth2: New link status: Disconnected (0002) <BR></P>
<P>eth2 is the wireless network. </P>
<P>I have done the following as described in other posts on this list so far: </P>
<P>1) Install wpa_supplicant in /usr/bin as dldr_wpa_supplicant so that it is automatically started when the interface is brought up </P>
<P>2) Do a sample startup with security (and dldr_wpa_supplicant) disabled - this works fine an IP is granted </P>
<P>3) Ensured that SSID broadcast is enabled </P>
<P>The debug file found the following being used: </P>
<P>o bcm43xxa.inf (interestingly inside this it says bcmwl5.inf also noted the section entry "[version]Signature=Windows 95", don't know if this is a problem but they are the Dell download from the linuxant site) </P>
<P>o bcmwl5.sys </P>
<P>My config file contains:</P>
<P>network={<BR> ssid="<correct ssid>"<BR> proto=WPA<BR> key_mgmt=WPA-PSK<BR> pairwise=TKIP<BR> group=TKIP<BR> psk=<correct psk><BR>}</P>
<P>I have tried both the unecrypted (text) psk value and the generated hex one - no difference to outcome</P>
<P>Not sure what else you might need. I can try to get the full diag file off the machine if it will help, its just a bit difficult when the network doesn't work ! </P>
<P>Thanks for any suggestions </P>
<P>Nick</P>
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