Wireless configuration

bhogg · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 96

Hi all,

Hopefully someone else has had this problem and can offer a quick solution.. google isn't turning up many answers this time.

I can get wireless up and running (after a few attempts) using variations of iwconfig, iwconfig eth1 essid <>, iwconfig eth1 key <>, ifconfig eth1 up, etc.. but I'd obviously like to have an automatic way of getting the essid, connecting, seeing if there's a key, and so on.

Previously, my /etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart command would scan for an AP, find one, then attempt to connect but fail (WEP) - but that was when I was using ndiswrapper. I'm now using a native driver and can get it working using the commands above, but now the net.eth1 script is producing the following error:

UberLord · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:37 pm Post subject:

Hi Brian

That was fixed a version or two ago. Check the link in my siggy for a more recent - and fixed one

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bhogg · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 96

Awesome, that got it up and running enough to be usable!

Is there a graphical UI to the script that allows for resetting wireless as a user, or selecting from a list of AP's when they are of the same level of preference? (or for auto-attaching to hot spots as needed)

Thanks again,
Brian

UberLord · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 6:36 am Post subject:

bhogg · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 96

Just a couple quick questions in case you know them off hand:

I'm occasionally getting an error scanning (usually with dhcp enabled) at this point:

UberLord · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:56 am Post subject:

bhogg · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 96

The script did seem to fix the (intermittant) error, but seemed to try to connect my disconnected eth0 a few times during the course of the script. I ended up flipping back to the old script to kill that.

I also modified it to stop forcing preferred connections to the aps if they weren't found (in case they're hidden) since they will never be hidden.

I am running into a strange problem... is there any way to reconfigure the script to connect to the AP with the greatest signal strength? I've got one spot I go to that has multiple APs named the same essid, and it keeps trying to establish a connection with the weakest of the group. If they weren't bridged and named something different I could get around it, but no such luck...

Thanks again!

UberLord · Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 11:01 pm Post subject: