Re: Getting wifi to work

Alexander Skwar wrote:
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!

Have you tried without WEP enabled. It's not a permanent solution, but it says whether the wireless is working at all.

-Matt


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