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Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:19:13 +0000
From: Derek Turner 
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prawn wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:17:58 +0000, Derek Turner wrote:
> 
> 
>  
>> I feel that I am 'so near yet so far' from cracking this so any advice 
>> gratefully received. wpasupplicant (which I presume = the debian 
>> wpa_supplicant) is loaded by the way. Tried turning off all security on 
>> the router and having no passkey in 'Networking' but still no joy.
>>
>> Forgot to say that Wireless Assistant 'sees' and correctly identifies 
>> the SSID.
> 
> There will be stuff in the syslogs relating to attempted connections which
> can be useful.
> 
> In the meantime, do you want to try this from the command line and
> see what the results are?
> 
> (replace xxxx with your device name, natch.)
> 
> sudo iwconfig xxxx essid "The Relevant SSID"
> sudo iwconfig xxxx enc "s:your_wep_encrypyion_key"
> sudo dhclient xxxx 
> 
> 
> 
wep? I'm using wap-psk but I'll  try it, thanks
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