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Post subject: SOLVED * No wireless connection using madwifi
 Posted: Jul 15, 2006 - 06:39 AM
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Joined: Jun 24, 2006
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Location: Muppet Theater
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| Ok. I can sit on the couch at my father in law's and boot windows and connect to his wireless router w/ wpa protection. I shutdown, reboot easter RC4 and can't connect to the router using netcardconfig to set up card w/ appropriate essid and password. So, I open up a console and try ifup ath0 as root. It tries to connect several times and eventually reports that no offers are received. I also try iwconfig ath0 scan and it shows the AP just fine. anyone have any ideas? Oh, DogBoy on #kanotix suggested turning off encryption, but my father in law can't find the password to get into the router. Thanks for your help. |
Last edited by UncleDeadley on Jul 16, 2006 - 01:00 AM; edited 1 time in total
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Post subject: RE: No wireless connection using madwifi
Posted: Jul 15, 2006 - 10:49 AM
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| The Syntax for wpasupplicant has changed recently and netcardconfig doesn't reflect that yet, further information is located at /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/ or here http://www.kanotix.org/index.php?module=pnWikka&tag=WlanWpa (sorry, just german language so far. but you'll see the stanzas for /etc/network/interfaces - you have to substitute "Treiber" with madwifi or if you're using recent kernels wext). |
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Posted: Jul 15, 2006 - 11:16 PM
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Location: Australia
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/usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/ holds a fair amount of information too.
Erm, slh had already said that . . .
Basically, something like:
iface ath0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid YOUR_SSID
wpa-passphrase YOURPHRASESTRING
or
wpa-psk 1234567890...
Thanks, Kel. |
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Posted: Jul 16, 2006 - 12:59 AM
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Ahh, thanks so much Kelmo and slh! That did the trick  I wish I knew how to program in something besides fortran (I'm a chemical engineer) so I could help fix the netcardconfig  |
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Posted: Jul 16, 2006 - 08:48 AM
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From the Great Escape "What did you do before the war?" - Steve McQueen "I was a chemical engineer"
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Posted: Jul 18, 2006 - 01:53 AM
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BTW, I have begun a netcardconfig rewrite, but no promises on when it will get finished (if ever!)
I'll put it online somehwere when it reaches a relatively usable state. |
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