Leave AES or change to wpa
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Reid Towsley <rtowsley@gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you tried manually setting up the networks by manually editing your
> /etc/network/interfaces file? Mine looks something like this:
>
> (change wlan0 to your network device, and edit the following lines to
> correspond to your specific network)
>
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> pre-up ifconfig wlan0 up
> pre-up ifconfig wlan0 down
> pre-up ifconfig wlan0 up
> pre-up ifconfig wlan0 down
> pre-up iwconfig wlan0 essid "myssid"
> pre-up iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
> pre-up iwpriv wlan0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
> pre-up iwpriv wlan0 set EncrypType=AES
> pre-up iwpriv wlan0 set WPAPSK="A shared key"
> pre-up ifconfig wlan0 up
>
> Reid
>
>
> Nathan Koch wrote:
>
> I tried it in debian etch, and it didnt work. I can see networks but i
> cant connect to them if they are wpa. its a pain.
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Reid Towsley <rtowsley@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If by Debian you mean Ubuntu I can help you out. The driver for RT2500
> > series worked in Ubuntu Feisty, but not in Gutsy. I should say at least the
> > WPA portion of the driver wouldn't work. The iwpriv "set" command was giving
> > me a whole lot of trouble. I ended up having to blacklist the built-in
> > driver, and compile the rt2500 driver (or kernel module or whatever Linux
> > calls them) from source. Worked wonderfully after that.
> >
> > If you're using Ubuntu Feisty 7.10 I can give you exact instructions of
> > what you need to do to get the card up and running with WPA security.
> >
> > Reid
> >
> > Nathan Koch wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello Linux G33ks,
> > I just recently switched over to Debian and I need some assistance
> > getting my pci wifi card up and running.
> > It was working in Mandriva so I assume it should work in Debian. I was
> > wondering if someone could offer me some
> > assistance on getting it up and running again. I'm doing bridged
> > networking through my macbook so it's online.
> > Id rather not do that for long though as it's only online when my
> > macbook is at home.
> >
> > Anyone have any words of wisdom?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nathan
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>
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> Nathan Koch
> www.xiambax.com
>
>
> -- I'm interested in upgrading my 28.8 kilobaud internet connection to a
> 1.5 megabit fiberoptic T1 line. Will you be able to provide an IP router
> that's compatible with my token ring ethernet LAN configuration? To
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Received on Wed Mar 19 17:50:32 2008
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