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kiepmad

Member

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 41

zd1211 wep wireless connection problem

Hi. This is my first post!
I've installed Arch now for the 3rd time. And I got it quite as I want it to. But a strange problem persists with my wireless network connection.
When I use rc.conf to connect, I get a time-out during init 3.
After booting, I can connect by using

iwconfig eth1 essid WLAN key KEY
ifconfig
iwconfig eth1 essid WLAN key KEY

Yeah that's right. I have to use iwconfig twice.
When I use it the first time, I get a wrong IP-Adress. After the second connect, it works fine.
The connection works fine with network-manager, but I don't like that app, as it issues a lot of error messages.

My rc.conf:

lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
#eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
eth1="dhcp"
wlan_eth1="eth1 essid WLAN key KEY"
WLAN_INTERACES=(eth1)
INTERFACES=(lo !eth0 eth1)

iphitus

Forum Fellow

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: zd1211 wep wireless connection problem

Welcome to Arch!

Try using netcfg2 instead, it's the new Arch way of connecting to wireless: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=39505

kiepmad

Member

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 41

Re: zd1211 wep wireless connection problem

Thank you, works out of the boxes, great work!