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absolutevoid

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[solved] Enabling wireless

Hi all,

Thank you all for the support, i am getting from and around this wonderful community. Here is my problem.

I have a compaq nx6125 machine with Broadcom BCM 4318.

As per the wiki, I installed the necessary driver (b43) and firmware (b43fwcutter), added b43 to modules in /etc/rc.conf, and also installed netcfg.

Now as my connection is set to open access, I am unsure of to select which example file to create /etc/network.d/mynetwork file. I chose wireless-wep. But as I said, it is open connection and wep or wpa is not enabled.

Also, there is an SSID and BSSID in my router and I am assuming this SSID to be the ESSID, the file is refering to, though I am not sure about it.

I do not know what to give as key. As it is open access, I simply deleted the line key ="1234..." as the default key in the example does not work. But this way didn't work for me.

Refering to the Wireless Management section, I tried invoking wireless in all the three ways. Nothing works. As this is a laptop, and I am no the move, I prefer to connect to wireless networks via Automatic connection to available networks.

Can anyone help me out? Thanks in Advance.

BTW, here is the result of running ifconfig:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:D4:0E:C8:E2  
          inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::216:d4ff:fe0e:c8e2/64 Scope:Link            
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1            
          RX packets:226 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0          
          TX packets:253 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0        
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000                                  
          RX bytes:69781 (68.1 Kb)  TX bytes:27485 (26.8 Kb)            
          Interrupt:23                                                  

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host     
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1240 (1.2 Kb)  TX bytes:1240 (1.2 Kb)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:A5:AC:03:E6
          inet6 addr: fe80::214:a5ff:feac:3e6/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:438 (438.0 b)  TX bytes:576 (576.0 b)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-14-A5-AC-03-E6-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          UP RUNNING  MTU:0  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Last edited by absolutevoid (2009-08-15 04:44:59)

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Re: [solved] Enabling wireless

You can modify the example files (actually, you should). They are only there to show you what netcfg can do for you .

A tip: before putting anything into a netcfg configuration file, try to connect manually. If that works, you should set all the relevant details in netcfg and test it. The easiest way to debug your setup is doing it manually first.

Good luck, and I hope you enjoy your stay here .

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Surgat_

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Re: [solved] Enabling wireless

As you're using an open network, you should copy /etc/network.d/examples/wireless-open to /etc/networks.d and edit it to fit your needs. Changing the ESSID (the same as SSID, the name of the network; BSSID is just the router's MAC address) and maybe the interface should be enough for you.

absolutevoid

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From: Keralam, India

Registered: 2009-08-12

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Re: [solved] Enabling wireless

Dear Forum Moderator,

The manual configuration worked and and I have succesfully configured netcfg. Thank you for the help. A special thanks to Surgat for pointing the right file.

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