wifi

[Derek Broughton]

Pupeno wrote:

> Does wifi work at all on ubuntu/kubutu ? I've tried many different

Perfectly.

> configurations without any success (it was working all-right on Gentoo).
> When I run /etc/init.d/network restart it just hangs for a long long time
> untill it say ok, but ath0 never gets an ip.

And is it, in fact, ath0?  My wireless is on eth1, others are on wlan0.

> Currently, my interfaces look like this:
> iface ath0 inet dhcp
>         wireless-essid Default
> 
> Using ubuntu, I managed to get non-wap 

wap? You probably meant either WPA or WEP.

> wifi working in an eye-blink with 
> its graphical tool, I trugled a lot to get it to work with wep and I never
> got it stable. With kubuntu the graphical interface is totally useless and

Yes...

> I can't even get it to connect by hand.
> 
> My access point is currently configured like this:
> (o) Enabled ( ) Disabled
> SSID: Default
> Channel: 6 [x] Auto select
> Mode Setting: ( ) G Mode  (o) Mix Mode
> SSID Broadcast: (o) Enabled  ( ) Disabled
> Security: (o) None ( ) WEP ( ) WPA-PSK ( ) WPA
> 
> Any ideas are welcome, I intend to enable WEP latter.

Why bother?  It takes 15 minutes to break WEP.  You've got WPA, use it
(after you get it working without security).

Check syslog for anything from dhclient - what does it say?
-- 
derek