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Tsuki
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Location: Southampton, England
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 Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:16 pm Post subject: Unable to send WEP key for WiFi network |
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I'm trying to set up a Belkin F5D5070 USB WiFi adapter under Gentoo. I've been following the advice of http://gentoo-wiki.com/Belkin_F5D7050 - using the rt73 driver through ndiswrapper - but am having problems sending the key so that I can join the network.
This is my /etc/conf.d/wireless:
| Code: | modules=("iwconfig")
key_belkin27="[1] s:<<my key>> key [1] enc open"
preferred_aps=( "belkin27" )
adhoc_essid_wlan0="belkin27"
sleep_scan_wlan0="1"
sleep_associate_wlan0="25"
iface_wlan0=("dhcp") |
"<<my key>>" replaces the actual key (an ASCII string with no special characters). Obviously, "belkin27" is the name of the network I'm trying to connect to.
When running /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start, I get the following output:
| Code: | * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ]
* Starting wlan0
* Configuring wireless network for wlan0
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
* wlan0 does not support setting keys
* or the parameter "mac_key_belkin27" or "key_belkin27" is incorrect
* Couldn't associate with any access points on wlan0
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
* wlan0 does not support setting keys
* or the parameter "mac_key_belkin27" or "key_belkin27" is incorrect
* wlan0 connected to ESSID "belkin27" at 00:00:00:00:00:00
* in ad-hoc mode on channel 3 (WEP disabled)
* You are using a depreciated configuration syntax for wlan0
* You are advised to read /etc/conf.d/net.example and upgrade it accordingly
* Bringing up wlan0
* dhcp
* Running dhcpcd ...
Error, timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response |
Any idea what's causing this problem? If I omit the "key_belkin27..." line from my /etc/conf.d/wireless it doesn't produce this error, but predictably won't connect to the network since I'm then not supplying the key. |
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blackdragonblood
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Joined: 23 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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I just had an issue similar to this. I'm using wireless-tools so if you are using wpa-supplicant this may not work.
This line:
| Code: | | key_ESSID="your_key" |
had to be changed to:
| Code: | | key_name-of-ap="your_key" |
Now, I properly authenticate with my wireless router. |
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