Getting wifi to work

[Alexander Skwar]

Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Despite the fact, that I'm not yet able to install Ubuntu on my HD, I'd
> like to get my wireless card to work.
> 
> I'm using a "Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)"
> which uses the madwifi driver. The AP is a Linksys WRT-54GS running
> OpenWrt firmware. I'm using WEP.
> 
> According to <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WifiDocs/Driver/Madwifi>, I need
> to do "sudo iwpriv authmode 2", as I'm using WEP. After I ran that command,
> which returned nothing and I thus expect that it succeeded, I started
> the network admin tool from (System)->(Administration)->(Networking) and
> selected the ath0 device, which got created automatically during boot.
> I then selected "settings" and entered my hex WEP key. For the key, I
> tried it with and without dashes, ie.
> 
> 	3D26-72EE-AFFE-7EE1-5FDD-8A1E-77
> 	3D2672EEAFFE7EE15FDD8A1E77
> 
> (that's not the actual key...). When I then activated ath0, it took
> quite some time and in /var/log/daemon.log I could see, that dhclient
> was trying to get a DHCP response. It didn't get one.
> 
> Well - what to do next?

I'm still clueless about how to get wifi to work. Meanwhile,
I also tried what taylormc wrote:

	sudo iwpriv ath0 authmode 2

But this doesn't change anything at all :(

Does anybody else have an idea about how to get wifi to work? Also
ideas reg. debugging this problem would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Alexander Skwar
-- 
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.