[ydl-gen] PS3 Wifi on YDL.net Enhanced Howto

[Paul Baxter]

Owen wrote a useful how-to for wireless networking on the new 
wireless-enabled kernel ....

> 6. Configuring Wireless
> a) Unplug the ethernet cable, eth0 is both the wired and wireless
>    Ethernet port on PS3s.
> b) Launch system-config-network (Network in the Settings menu)
> c) Delete the eth0 (gelic_net) interface.
> d) Create a Wireless connection.
> e) You may now configure that wireless connection as you would with
>    other YDL versions. One note here that confused me when I did this
>           was that the ESSID specified as "Auto", when I actually needed 
> to
>    remove that and select the Auto radio button.
> f) You can now activate the interface.
>
> 7. Enjoy your new wireless enabled PS3.

I've hit a log jam and can't get wireless to work with WPA.

Has anyone succeeded on the PS3 with the new kernel? If so any tips?

Is WPA support even possible with this wireless driver? or perhaps just WEP?

My history:
I previously didn't have an ethernet connected, so when I successfully got 
to step 6 above, system-config-network, it already had an ok against the 
hardware status but deactivated eth0 wireless device. (no gelic_net device 
in sight)

[iwconfig reported eth0 as having wireless extensions]

I use WPA-PSK encryption and have successfully configured wpa_supplicant to 
work on my x86 linux with madwifi.

Anyway, attempting to activate eth0 results in the check cable message.
[ifconfig eth0 up  followed by ifconfig shows the device recognised ]

I don't see anywhere on the wireless settings tab of the gui to setup WPA, 
so I left this blank and next went 'off script' and tried the command line 
tools....

fell back on defining a wpa_supplicant.conf file with similar content to my 
x86 equivalent file

I used
 wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd
and the diagnostics indicated that I was attempting to find an AP every 5 
secs.
 (just to check, I then fired up my PSP physically next to the PS3 and it 
wirelessly finds the AP OK).

Any hints on how to proceed.