Wireless configuration and startup - The Gentoo way

UberLord · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 4:05 pm Post subject:

If the essid is Biowireless then the command is

wireless_key_Biowireless="restricted s:fooba"

Of course, you could change restricted to open or leave it out entirely and let the driver decide.

Grilo · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 5:09 pm Post subject:

ok thank you ben using the iwconfig command essid then enc

it connects but then just dies and will not even register teh eth1 if i do a iwconfig.. could that be my signal?
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god8y · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2003 Posts: 71

Weird, I've finally found the problem why I couldn't connect to the AP.
I have to set my channel with iwconfig manually and then start my eth1 device, any idea's how to fix this ?

UberLord · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 5:53 pm Post subject:

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Grilo · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 6:11 pm Post subject:

i have wep running at 64bit and am using a key and not a parpass. not sure... i am looking into ways of boosting my router's signal. its' an smc 7004vwbr
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god8y · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2003 Posts: 71

Some other problem I bumped on now, I can 'connect' to the AP with a HEX WEP key (128bit) but I cannot ping anything or get pinged, assume the key is 01234567890123456789012345
I should set
wireless_key_De_Coninck="open 0123-4567-8901-2345-6789-0123-45"
right?
problem is: I can connect to the AP but i have to manually set the WEP key again to make it possible the machine can be accessed

UberLord · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 7:31 pm Post subject:

god8y · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2003 Posts: 71

UberLord · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 8:51 pm Post subject:

god8y · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2003 Posts: 71

If I use that as setting it won't even let me connect to it, seems like it needs the word open or restricted :cry:

haven · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 9:03 pm Post subject:

I just wanted to post up a quick thank-you. Last night I was running my DWL-AG650 Card under windows and I had no idea what linux wifi entailed.

Tonight I am posting this via the same laptop booted under gentoo

Thanks for the very helpful information found on here combined with notes from the url below:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?product=675

Now I just need to figure out WPA but that can wait until another night.

Ta once more guys.

hänse · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 9:27 pm Post subject: question

hi

this script is great, now i can configure my various wlans easily. but i have two questions

1. where can i set the nick (like "iwconfig wlan0 nick NAME" does)

2. where can i set the timeout for scanning for network "any"

thx ;-)

UberLord · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 10:13 pm Post subject:

UberLord · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 10:18 pm Post subject: Re: question

UberLord · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 10:23 pm Post subject:

hänse · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 10:58 pm Post subject:

thx it works great

Phylroy · n00b Joined: 23 Mar 2004 Posts: 18

I think I'm close but not quite...

I've set up the net scripts and It fails, I think at the dhcpcd part.

I try to start the script and I get this result..

UberLord · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 9:40 am Post subject:

If you're connected to the AP ok, not getting a DHCP address really only be one of the following

1) No DHCP server available - or it's handing out conflicting IP's
2) WEP incorrect
3) MAC filtering
4) Firewall blocking DHCP
5) Signal isn't strong enough

Have you tried using a static IP and switching off WEP and MAC filtering?
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god8y · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2003 Posts: 71

Hey,
Uberlord I think i came to a bug in the script orso, because when i set the wireless_wep_De_Coninck="open 01234567890123456789012345" It always fails for me to connect and get eth1 up, if I set it to restricted i can connect to it, but I have to reset the key again and with mode: open

any ideas?

UberLord · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 9:55 am Post subject:

Don't use open or closed in the key setting and let the driver decide?

Sounds more like a driver issue to me
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god8y · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2003 Posts: 71

if I let the driver decide it keeps the same :s
dammit stupid drivers

UberLord · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 4:27 pm Post subject:

god8y · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2003 Posts: 71

Doesn't he launch the script then before the device is up ? It has to be started after it though, I will try

t_2199 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 146

Works great for me with the first try!

THANX!

saved me alot of time