[gPXE] WPA2-encrypted wireless booting with ath5k

[Scott Derrick]

Have you tried a plain open network first?  Just to eliminate the WPA stuff?

Scott

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Subject: [gPXE] WPA2-encrypted wireless booting with ath5k
From: Alexander Heinz <mailsanmich at gmx.li>
To: gpxe at etherboot.org
Date: 03/26/2010 10:00 AM

> Hello!
> 
> I would like to start with thanking you for the features you have 
> integrated in the last years.
> 
> Some years ago I experimented with Etherboot/PXELinux but that was long 
> before gPXE was there. HTTP, iSCSI, AOE and even WiFi ... that is just 
> amazing!
> 
> I am especially interested in WiFi and hope that you can help me build a 
> working setup.
> 
> I have downloaded the latest source code snapshot (the tarball linked on 
> the wiki page) and I have built a PXE bootstrap loader image (.pxe) with 
> the following command:
> 
> make bin/ath5k.pxe DEBUG=wpa EMBEDDED_IMAGE=/home/user/wifi_berlin.gpxe
> 
> the integrated script looks like this:
> #!gpxe
> iwlist
> iwstat
> set net0/ssid mySSID
> set net0/key myWPApassphrase
> dhcp net0
> kernel http://etherboot.org/gtest/bz2bzImage root=100
> initrd http://etherboot.org/gtest/initrd.bz2
> boot
> 
> my target PC has 2 NICs:
> Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
> 168c:001a (rev 01) Atheros AR5005G 802.11abg NIC
> 
> The Realtek NIC which is also running gPXE just chainloads ath5k.pxe. 
> The output of iwlist and iwstat makes sense (2 WiFi networks incl the 
> target network are listed). My AP is listed as WPA2. It is configured to 
> support both, WPA and WPA2. The access is not restricted to certain MAC 
> addresses. The distance between AP and the wifi client is 3 meters (no 
> walls in between).
> 
> However the link does not come up. I get the following error:
> 
> Waiting for link-up on net0...WPA 0x2daf8 ALERT: PMKID mismatch in 1/4
> WPA 0x2daa8 ALERT: PMKID mismatch in 1/4
> last message appears 17 times
>   failed: Permission denied (0x0226603c)
> Could not configure net0: Permission denied (0x0226603c)
> 
> I am sorry for not providing a detailed log. This PC does not have any 
> serial ports, so I cannot use a NULL modem cable to capture the output.
> 
> I have entered the WPA passphrase several times to make sure there is no 
> typo in it. Can you think of anything else that I could check?
> 
> Thank you very much!
> 
> Best regards,
> Alex
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