wifi

[Pupeno]

On Tuesday 18 October 2005 21:29, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Pupeno wrote:
> > Does wifi work at all on ubuntu/kubutu ? I've tried many different
>
> Perfectly.
Good to know.

> > 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.
Yes, it is, it was on Gentoo and it is on Kubuntu. I imagine that it is 
because it has an Atheros chipset.
Making the long story short, it seems the madwifi drivers that come with 
Kubuntu on the linux-restricted-modules doesn't work with my card. I 
installed madwifi drivers from cvs and it worked. Maybe I should fill a bug 
report.

> > 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.
Yes, wep.

> > 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).

It takes 15 and a brain (to at least imagine that it might be breakable, and 
search for it on google). I know people that are somewhat knowloged on 
computers and often uses other people's access point and that doesn't know 
that is breakable. That same people also like to make spam. By using wep I 
avoid getting my AP used by them.

> Check syslog for anything from dhclient - what does it say?
ifup ath0 showed me more info, I couldn't get anything on the logs, anyway, I 
solved it and it was, probably, outdated drivers.
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