Wireless network on slackware

"So here is how to make a native wireless connection

– I’ll assume you have a running WPA2/PSK encrypted wireless network you want to log in

1- Know your hardware

1 2	lspci | grep 'Network controller' 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100

Fortunately its supported by the kernel, i need no patches or drivers

2- Know your cards name

1	ifconfig -a

You will get something like this

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eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1e:33:81:5a:fc     UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Interrupt:28 Base address:0x4000   lo        Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1 RX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:2560 (2.5 KiB)  TX bytes:2560 (2.5 KiB)   wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:21:6b:3e:27:5c inet addr:192.168.1.166  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::221:6bff:fe3e:275c/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1 RX packets:6245 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5587 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:4484716 (4.2 MiB)  TX bytes:1016291 (992.4 KiB)

So it’s wlan0… lets wake it up!

1	ifconfig wlan0 up

2- You can use this if you’re not sure what’s your network name “ESSID”

1	iwlist wlan0 scan

If you didn’t get any output – make sure your network is setup properly or the more disturbing, search for your hardware driver… God help you.

3- Assuming everything went fine,

1	su - c wpa_passphrase YourESSID Password #Replace them with your ESSID and password

You will get something like:

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root@ahmed:~# wpa_passphrase YOURESSID password network={ ssid="YOURESSID" #psk="password" psk=9662ef151ea49312e467ff7b9220f4a7204d618aca903d5a86383dd9e1ca0dea }

4- copy those lines, and open this file with your favorite text editor

1	/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

There you’ll find something like this

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ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=0 eapol_version=1 ap_scan=1 fast_reauth=1   network={ scan_ssid=0 ssid="your_essid" proto=WPA RSN key_mgmt=WPA-PSK WPA-EAP pairwise=CCMP TKIP group=CCMP TKIP psk=your_64_hex_characters_long_key }

change ssid value with your networks’ name, psk with psk value from the output you copied, And proto with WPA2

5- Change file privileges

1	chmod 600 /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

6- Open this file with your favorite text editor

1	/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf

And add those lines

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# Config information for wlan0 (using dhcp): IFNAME[1]="wlan0" IPADDR[1]="" NETMASK[1]="" USE_DHCP[1]="yes" DHCP_HOSTNAME[1]="My_ESSID" #Change it with your networks' name WLAN_WPA[1]="wpa_supplicant" WLAN_WPADRIVER[1]="wext"

And add your networks’ values if you are not using DHCP.

– save the file, We are almost there 

1	/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 wlan0_restart

congratulations your PC should be connected now 

Resources :

/usr/doc/wpa_supplicant-0.6.10/README.slackware"