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From: Washington

Registered: 2007-11-04

Posts: 572

iwlist scan does nothing // netcfg

I'm trying to merge to netcfg instead of wicd and most of it works. Problem one is that  "iwlist wlan0 scanning" says nothing is found when a normal user, but does as root. Can I make it work with a normal user? Same goes for netcfg-menu, which I have to do as root.

Second is when I try to connect to my wireless network, it just fails. It doesn't say why though. In wicd the password was as wep (hex), do I have to do that with this or should just wep be working?

DESCRIPTION="Home Network"
INTERFACE=wlan0
SCAN="yes"
SECURITY="wep"
ESSID="reasons"
KEY="---------"
IP="dhcp"

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: iwlist scan does nothing // netcfg

I added my user to the 'network' group.  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Groups

EDIT:  I can run iwlist scanning as user.

Last edited by tigrmesh (2008-03-16 18:45:02)

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From: Washington

Registered: 2007-11-04

Posts: 572

Re: iwlist scan does nothing // netcfg

I already am in the network group which I thought would cover it. I can run it, it just doesn't find anything whereas root does.

rson451

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From: Annapolis, MD USA

Registered: 2007-04-15

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Re: iwlist scan does nothing // netcfg

in KEY do you have your passphrase or the hashed key? also is your ssid hidden? if not you shouldnt need scan set to yes

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From: Washington

Registered: 2007-11-04

Posts: 572

Re: iwlist scan does nothing // netcfg

The key isn't the hashes, that's just for here. It's not hidden either so I'm fixing that now but it still failed.

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From: Washington

Registered: 2007-11-04

Posts: 572

Re: iwlist scan does nothing // netcfg

I got all that working with

CONNECTION="wireless"
DESCRIPTION="Home Network"
INTERFACE=wlan0
SCAN="yes"
SECURITY="wep"
ESSID="reasons"
KEY="1234567890"
IP="dhcp"
TIMEOUT=90
DHCP_TIMEOUT=90
DHCP_OPTIONS="-m 1"

Now to just get it for the normal user.