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Hi all,
I managed to install Arch Linux in my external USB hard drive and everything is working great except the wireless. I have a Intel 3945ABG card and i have installed the suitable driver(iwlwifi-3945) for this by following the tutorial in Arch Wiki.
iwconfig gives 'wlan0' and the associated details.
The interface came up when i"fconfig wlan0 up" was given.
And I can see our wireless network by runnning this" iwlist ath0 scan | less" .
But when iwconfig ath0 essid linksys key s:mywepkey , this error is returned by the system.
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A).
SET failed on device wlan0 ;invalid argument.
The wepkey is f6669c164a.
can you please explain how this can be fixed.
Thanks in advance
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I do not process to know much about wireless, but ....
First you refer to the device as 'wlan0' and in the next breath you use 'ath0'.
What happens if you do "iwlist wlan0 scan" ?
What happens if you use "iwconfig wlan0" ?
Also - your key looks more like hex than string - ie do not use the 's:' prefix.
I also seem to recall that some utility is not very happy using 'abcdef' - use 'ABCDEF' instead (ie uppercase hex)
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I do not process to know much about wireless, but ....
First you refer to the device as 'wlan0' and in the next breath you use 'ath0'.
What happens if you do "iwlist wlan0 scan" ?
What happens if you use "iwconfig wlan0" ?
Also - your key looks more like hex than string - ie do not use the 's:' prefix.
I also seem to recall that some utility is not very happy using 'abcdef' - use 'ABCDEF' instead (ie uppercase hex)
Many thanks Perbh for the details,
The interface is actually 'wlan0' ,
I ran all the commands you mentioned , for ex
iwlist wlan0 scan | less :- i can see my and all other wireless networks in range.
I tried to connect witout the prefix 's' and 'ABCDEF' but no luck.
Googling again ,brought this page
http://archux.com/page/setting-wireless-networking
I followed the instructions and installed netcfg . created a file with all the wireless details in /etc/network.d , ran this command 'netcfg wireless'.It started working , atleast for nowt ..pinging google gives me response..
thanks again for your help
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