ALFA AWUS036H wpa supplicant problem

[roottoorroot]

Hello,

I am experiencing troubles connecting to a WPA protected AP with wpa_supplicant with my external card Alfa AWUS036H.

card is detected and works fine with other tools.

root@kali:~# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0c:29:49:80:0c  
          inet addr:192.168.11.131  Bcast:192.168.11.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe49:800c/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:7697 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6475 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:4841516 (4.6 MiB)  TX bytes:1014321 (990.5 KiB)
          Interrupt:19 Base address:0x2024 

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:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:3744 (3.6 KiB)  TX bytes:3744 (3.6 KiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:c0:ca:54:ae:df  
          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)

root@kali:~# wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c /etc/wpa-supp.conf
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWSCAN]: Device or resource busy
wlan0: Failed to initiate AP scan
ioctl[SIOCSIWSCAN]: Device or resource busy
wlan0: Failed to initiate AP scan
ioctl[SIOCSIWSCAN]: Device or resource busy
wlan0: Failed to initiate AP scan
ioctl[SIOCSIWSCAN]: Device or resource busy
wlan0: Failed to initiate AP scan
^Cwlan0: CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING - signal 2 received

wpa supplicant configuration file

network={
	bssid=00:21:63:0E:29:2E	
	ssid="some"
	key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
	pairwise=TKIP
	proto=WPA
	group=TKIP
	psk="a1s2d3f4Q5"
}

any suggestions or similar experience? thank you

[roottoorroot]

Hello I forgot additional info. Im runing Kali Gnome version on vmware player 6.0.
Also I made further development as the error code is now more verbose.

root@kali:~# wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa-supp.conf -Dwext
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
wlan0: Trying to associate with 00:21:63:0E:29:2E (SSID='some' freq=2427 MHz)
wlan0: Associated with 00:00:00:00:00:00
wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:21:63:0E:29:2E reason=0

[zimmaro]

Hello I forgot additional info. Im runing Kali Gnome version on vmware player 6.0.
Also I made further development as the error code is now more verbose.

root@kali:~# wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa-supp.conf -Dwext
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
wlan0: Trying to associate with 00:21:63:0E:29:2E (SSID='some' freq=2427 MHz)
wlan0: Associated with 00:00:00:00:00:00
wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:21:63:0E:29:2E reason=0

hi
i THINK(my-amatour-opinion) the problem is related to network-manager && wpa_supplicant...because:
I have done many test son my x64 VM-KALI-ONLY_TEST
before I had your same results...but after:
-remove network-manager network-manager-gnome and consequently wpasupplicant
-reboot my vm-test && autoconnect via eth0
-install wicd with dependency && auto-reinstall wpasupplicant as recommended package!!!
-reboot && disconnect eth0 (make it down) && connect my alfa36H
-follow the procedures in the picture
WORKED-FINE !!!!!
http://imageshack.us/f/14/l3v0.png/
@zoom 1600x1200
bye

[roottoorroot]

Hi zimmaro, thank you for you input :-)
I followed your steps and finally managed to connect via wpa_supplicant!
Furthermore I tested an alternative: I did all the above without wpa_supplicant reinstallation and this time also worked fine >>> so this must be related to the network-manager.