Connecting to WPA2 TLS with eee 1000h

[king1326]

Hello,

I've been having issues trying to connect to my schools network with Sabayon 5 Gnome.
Attempts using NetworkManager and the wpa_supplicant have been unsuccesful. With NM, the dialog box Authentication "required" with network settings keeps popping up
with wpa_supplicant the connection times out


Network:
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The network I am trying to connect to is WPA2 with TLS


My wpa_supplicant.conf configured as shown on the school website is as follows

network={
ssid="WPI-Wireless"
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
proto=WPA2
pairwise=CCMP
group=CCMP TKIP
eap=TLS
identity="******"
ca_cert="/home/awb/linux_cert/netops-ca.pem.cer"
client_cert="/home/awb/linux_cert/Wireless-User.pem"
private_key="/home/awb/linux_cert/Wireless_User.pem"
private_key_passwd="********"
}

Computer:
Asus eee 1000h
Wireless card = RT2860


Other Info
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I have installed the RT2860 firmware off sulfur. I can now see wireless networks but not connect to them.

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GLaDOS awb # iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz 
          Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=5 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off


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GLaDOS awb # wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

ioctl[SIOCGIWSCAN]: Resource temporarily unavailable
ioctl[SIOCSIWSCAN]: Device or resource busy
Failed to initiate AP scan.
Trying to associate with 00:15:e8:df:d0:c0 (SSID='WPI-Wireless' freq=2462 MHz)
Trying to associate with 00:20:d8:25:1e:00 (SSID='WPI-Wireless' freq=2462 MHz)
Authentication with 00:20:d8:25:1e:00 timed out.
Trying to associate with 00:20:d8:25:1e:00 (SSID='WPI-Wireless' freq=2462 MHz)
Authentication with 00:20:d8:25:1e:00 timed out.


I am a fairly new linux user who has been attempting to use Sabayon for several months on and off with out much luck. Any help or advise would be appreciated.


Thanks!

[king1326]

forgot to add this:

I tried installing the driver file from ralink. when I go to make the file it gives me

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GLaDOS 2010_01_29_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.3.0.0 # make

make -C tools
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/awb/b2010_01_29_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.3.0.0/2010_01_29_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.3.0.0/tools'
gcc -g bin2h.c -o bin2h
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/awb/b2010_01_29_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.3.0.0/2010_01_29_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.3.0.0/tools'
/home/awb/b2010_01_29_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.3.0.0/2010_01_29_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.3.0.0/tools/bin2h
cp -f os/linux/Makefile.6 /home/awb/b2010_01_29_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.3.0.0/2010_01_29_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.3.0.0/os/linux/Makefile
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.33-sabayon/build SUBDIRS=/home/awb/b2010_01_29_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.3.0.0/2010_01_29_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.3.0.0/os/linux modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33-sabayon'
Makefile:309: /usr/src/linux-2.6.33-sabayon/scripts/Kbuild.include: No such file or directory
Makefile:535: /usr/src/linux-2.6.33-sabayon/arch/x86/Makefile: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33-sabayon/arch/x86/Makefile'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33-sabayon'
make: *** [LINUX] Error 2


[king1326]

sigh.

Does anyone know if it is possible to connect to a WPA2 EAP TLS network with Sabayon at the moment?

I've been at it for several weeks now with no luck. When I tried earlier in the year with the KDE version I got the same results, but recently was told that many people here have a lot of wireless issues with KDE in all distros. I'm getting the same thing with gnome.

I like Sabayon a lot, but a netbook without wireless is kind of worthless to me.

I am new to Linux and am unfamiliar with how interrelated various distros are but I know I can access the network with Opensuse, Ubuntu, and Fedora. I know a few other people with Gentoo working which makes me think that it is my specific setup or hardware but I've tried pretty much everything I could find.

[dirtsandwich]

This points towards your "ioctl[SIOCGIWSCAN]: Resource temporarily unavailable" error being a driver issue.

This may help with your issue compiling the driver.

[king1326]

Thanks for your response!

I followed the second set of instructions and the driver compiled.

I'll try the supplicant instructions the next chance I get.

Thanks again!