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saiga

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Registered: 2013-12-13

Posts: 4

netctl: connect to ad-hoc network

Hi guys,

I currently try to install arch linux but I am stuck now at setting up the internet connection.
I run Linux Mint on another machine with which I create an ad-hoc network. This network uses a wep key. My only chance to get an internet connection for the machine I try to install arch on ist to connect to said ad-hoc network. I try to connect via netctl or wifi-menu, respectively. However, I get the error

WPA association/authentication failed for interface '<interface>'

I am not a crack but I guess from the error it's a problem with my wep key. I already searched on the forums and found serveral threads discussion this problem. The solution was quite simple: prepend

\"

to the key, which, however, does not work for me - still the same error.
Do you guys have any ideas how to fix my problem?

Kind Regards

Last edited by saiga (2013-12-16 13:25:10)

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: netctl: connect to ad-hoc network

Can you connect manually? Details here if you need them.

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,607

Re: netctl: connect to ad-hoc network

You need to add

AdHoc=yes

to the profile. wifi-menu won't do that for you, it doesn't have any code to detect whether a network is ad-hoc.

If that won't work, also add

WPADriver=wext

I've found this helps sometimes, though it's basically a hack.

Last edited by Gusar (2013-12-13 19:22:59)

saiga

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Registered: 2013-12-13

Posts: 4

Re: netctl: connect to ad-hoc network

What do you mean by 'hack' ? Because it got it working now...