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Raccoon1400

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-04-14

Posts: 853

setup wireless network with netcfg

[root@duncan-desktop network.d]# netcfg wireless-wep
:: wireless-wep up                                                       [BUSY] dhcpcd: wifi0: unknown hardware family
dhcpcd: timed out
 - DHCP IP lease attempt failed.
                                                                         [FAIL] 
[root@duncan-desktop network.d]#

here's the profile:

[root@duncan-desktop network.d]# cat ./wireless-wep
CONNECTION="wireless"
DESCRIPTION="A simple WEP encrypted wireless connection"
INTERFACE="wifi0"
SECURITY="wep"
ESSID="FedoraMan"
KEY="a 6 digit number"
IP="dhcp"

I don't have any idea what I'm doing. Can someone help?
I'm trying to create a wireless network I can connect to on my laptop.

Last edited by Raccoon1400 (2009-12-08 23:52:06)

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skottish

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Re: setup wireless network with netcfg

Are you sure that wifi0 is the name of the interface? I'm guessing that it's wlan0. Check with iwconfig.

Raccoon1400

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From: Ontario, Canada

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Re: setup wireless network with netcfg

I checked before. It's definitely wifi0

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Zariel

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Registered: 2008-10-07

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Re: setup wireless network with netcfg

dhcp is definatly running on the router? Trying giving yourself a static IP. Run iwevent then do the netcfg again

hexanol

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From: Canaduh

Registered: 2009-08-04

Posts: 95

Re: setup wireless network with netcfg

What's the output of "ifconfig -a" before executing this command ? The "wifi0: unknown hardware family" makes me believe the wifi0 interface is not configured properly (i.e link encap is not ethernet).

Have you tried to connect to your wireless network without netcfg ?

Raccoon1400

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-04-14

Posts: 853

Re: setup wireless network with netcfg

I'm trying to turn my computer into a wireless access point, not connect to a wireless network.

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Zariel

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Re: setup wireless network with netcfg

Thats not what netcfg is for, you could look at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux … l-wap.html but beyond that I cant help.