Getting wifi to work

[Matthew Kuiken]

Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Matthew Kuiken wrote:
>
>> Have you tried without WEP enabled.
>
> No, I haven't. Might try do so. It's a PITA though - but of course
> something to check. Now I just need to find out how I disable WEP
> on OpenWrt - anyone? :)

Not certain on this one.  I'm just running the standard Linksys 
firmware...  When I installed Breezy way back when, I couldn't get WEP 
to work.  I eventually did, but can't remember how.

>
>>  It's not a permanent solution, but it says whether the wireless is 
>> working at all.
>
> I think wireless is working, because I see my ESSID in network-admin
> and because it works under Gentoo. Is this a wrong assumption?

I didn't realize you were still using network-admin.  I would recommend 
upgrading to network-manager.  It handles wireless much better IMO.  
After you install it, you will need to comment/remove the lines about 
your wireless card from /etc/network/interfaces, as network-manager does 
not try to use interfaces controlled through the config file approach.

As far as the interface working or not, having it work under Gentoo 
means there isn't a hardware problem, but there still could be software 
problems under Ubuntu.  I don't know how much functionality it requires 
to be able to see the ESSID.  It may mean that everything is working 
fine, but it may mean that the system can get just far enough to scan, 
but gets in trouble when it tries to connect.

-Matt