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DizL

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From: Warsaw/Rzeszow Poland

Registered: 2006-09-07

Posts: 8

asus eee 900 wifi problem

Hi,

I use stock kernel and ath5k module,
I tried to use wicd and it worked for unsecured networks, but when i try to connect to any secured network it does not.

so i installed netcfg
and now when i try netcfg2 eee i get Wireless association failed.

my eee file:

CONNECTION="wireless"
DESCRIPTION="test"
INTERFACE=wlan0
SCAN="yes"
SECURITY="wep"
ESSID="eee"
KEY="s:jurek"
IP="static"
IFOPTS="192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
DNS1=192.168.0.1

Any ideas ???

sveinemann

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Registered: 2007-09-30

Posts: 108

Re: asus eee 900 wifi problem

I recommend this for you're laptop; http://code.toofishes.net/packages/eee/

Everything works perfect, with that. And I am curious, is the FN+x keys working properly with stock kernel?
(Thinking about the asus_acpi module, I have to recompile it for every kernel update)

It's all in the wiki.

Last edited by sveinemann (2009-03-19 01:42:08)

DizL

Member

From: Warsaw/Rzeszow Poland

Registered: 2006-09-07

Posts: 8

Re: asus eee 900 wifi problem

yes FN+x keys (with acpi-eee) work great with stock kernel
but if the wifi (ath5k) works good for unsecured networks so why tu use toofishes kernel?
maybe it's not a kernel issue?

what do you use to connect to networks?

brisbin33

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From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 1,796

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Re: asus eee 900 wifi problem

i use netcfg and it works fine with my 900 stock kernel or toofishes eee (overall i like the stock kernel better but toofishes gives me two finger scroll).

try a wep profile with dhcp.  if it connects see what /etc/resolve.conf says.  those should be your DNS1 and DNS2 entries if you do a static profile. (at least that's what i had to do)  mine are like 207.x.x.8 and 207.x.x.9.

using netcfg needs (!network ... net-profiles ...) in DAEMONS=(), (!gateway) in ROUTES=(), add your profile to NETWORKS=() to load it at boot, and comment INTERFACES=() all in rc.conf

edit: i'm new to this so the above might not be 100% accurate or necessary, just letting you know what worked for me.

Last edited by brisbin33 (2009-04-01 15:56:28)

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