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From: Joe LaVigne 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Sorry, wireless again (!)
Date: 3 Mar 2007 19:43:56 GMT
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On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:19:13 +0000, Derek Turner wrote:

> 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

that seems to be your problem.  You do not have WPA working properly on
you card, but your router is using it.  You cannot get IP because you do
not have a WPA connection.

Because you are using an NDIS Wrapper, I am not the best one to give
advice for getting it working.  I used a card with native support, and was
able to get it to work pretty easy using the instructions found at:

http://www.vollink.com/gary/deb_wifi.html

Give it a try.  It has drop-down boxes for telling the page what you are
using, and it will generate all of the necessary files for you (you'll
have to copy and paste).

Some of the stuff is a little bit different, but once you get it all in
there and start the services, run the Gnome Network Manager applet, and
see if the WPA option isn't there for you.  It worked great for me on the
first try with my Atheros card...
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