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mrpigfeed

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] Wireless Issues

I've been using autowifi for the longest time to manage my wifi, and its been working perfectly.

However, I go to rebuild my system (various reasons), and I find out that autowifi has been deprecated ( -.- ) and isn't available anymore.

I'm trying to set up my networking in rc.conf, and I think I've narrowed down my problem fairly well -

On an unencrypted network,

wlan_wlan0="wlan0 essid SSID"

works perfectly.

However, I have a WEP encrypted network that I need to be accessing...

What I had to do in autowifi was set the authentication to "shared" (and key to 2), but for the life of me I cannot figure how to do this using iwconfig...

(I use key [2] xxxx-xx..., but I'm still not convinced that's working, so Im adding that to my question.)

Any help would be appreciated - after a day of googling, I'm worn out.

(I might add I have a Netgear WG311 wireless pci card)

Last edited by mrpigfeed (2009-09-21 23:12:22)

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: [SOLVED] Wireless Issues

Your syntax is correct - check man iwconfig for full details.

When you get it working manually, have a look at netcfg for automating it.

mrpigfeed

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Registered: 2009-09-20

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Re: [SOLVED] Wireless Issues

First, thanks a bunch for the speedy reply!

Well, my syntax may be correct, but something's not clicking D: .

When I use the line in rc.conf

 wlan_wlan0 = "wlan0 essid MySSID key [1] xxxx-xxxx-xxxx..."

DHCPCD times out, and then iwconfig outputs that I'm connected to the SSID, but I have no IP served up.

I'm really thinking the problem is that it's not using a shared key (As I said, that fixed the problem in autowifi).

(As I'm kind of a newb, I know I'm probably completely wrong here, but I'm doing my best )

hack.augusto

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2008-08-28

Posts: 124

Re: [SOLVED] Wireless Issues

try to increase the timeout with "-t <time_in_secs>" in you /etc/conf.d/dhcpd

Last edited by hack.augusto (2009-09-21 01:54:29)

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: [SOLVED] Wireless Issues

When you get it working manually...

By "manually", I meant issue the appropriate iwconfig command, check if it succeeded, then continue with the dhcpcd command.

mrpigfeed

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Registered: 2009-09-20

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Re: [SOLVED] Wireless Issues

EDIT: FINALLY! The autowifi pkg was uploaded to another mirror, so my problems are completely solved

For anyone who may want to use autowifi as well, it is now hosted here for the time being.

Sorry for being nitpicky, but that's the thing - I can't get it working manually OR through rc.conf (which to my understanding is basically the same as manually).

I can connect to a nonsecure network manually (as well as via rc.conf), but I need to be connecting to a WEP secured network.

#iwconfig wlan0 essid MySSID key [1] xxx-xxx
#dhcpcd wlan0

does NOT work for the WEP network. I can't get an IP served up, and I think it's something to do with not using a shared key.

iwconfig wlan0 essid MySSID key restricted [2] xxxx-xxxx

does not work either.

After a little more research, the command "iwpriv" seems in some way relevant, but it's not working for me either.

(Really the best solution [for me] would be to some way get Autowifi to work, but I still cannot find any way to do that.)

Last edited by mrpigfeed (2009-09-21 23:13:46)