My Toshiba laptop works fine with wireless-G (atheros chipset) with WEP and DHCP on SuSE 9.1. Now I am trying to get wpa_supplicant to work so I could switch to WPA-SPK. I downloaded and tried to compile the latest wpa_supplicant but found that the madwifi driver (the driver for the atheros chip) that came with 9.1 is too old. So I downloaded, compiled and installed the latest madwifi driver and got it up and working in WEP mode. So far so good. The header files from the new madwifi driver tarball also allowed me to successfully compile and install wpa_supplicant. Now, I am trying to get it all to behave nicely with SuSE's network configuration and startup programs and scripts. Herein lies the problem. I modified the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-* file to remove the WEP key stuff. I can manually start the network with rcnetwork start; manually start the wpa_supplicant daemon with the appropriate options, then manually iwconfig the ssid, rate; manually ifconfig the IP number, netmask and broadcast; manually set the default route; and manually create a valid /etc/resolv.conf. This makes a fully working wireless connection. However, I can't get it all to play automatically via DHCP. Here are the questions. 1. What's a good place to insert the command to start the wpa_supplicant daemon? It seems that it matters when wpa_supplicant should be started. Start it too soon before the network is configured, and it doesn't work. Wait too long after I manually configure things, and it doesn't work either. Also, wpa_supplicant needs to be killed when the network is stopped, or else it seems to bring up the interface again (without fully configuring everything). So I need also some tips on where to insert the command to stop wpa_supplicant during network shutdown. 2. Any concrete examples of what the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-* file should look like? I wonder if I am missing something. 3. Any thoughts why DHCP doesn't work when I enable the interface and start wpa_supplicant? I googled and found some threads but nothing helped me solve this problem, and there were some discussions on the suse-laptop list in German that I do not understand. Am I treading on uncharted waters? Since WEP is not secure enough I'd really like to get WPA going. Hope that someone could provide some help. Thanks in advance. -Ti -- Ti Kan http://www.amb.org/ti Vorsprung durch Technik