On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, John W. Linville wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 01:19:29PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > Don't confuse encryption with authentication. > > ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pdf/wrt54g_ug.pdf > > See page 49 under "Authentication Type". right, sorry -- i believe from earlier that the windows system had "open", so that's what i'm trying. > You might try this sequence: > > killall dhclient > ifconfig wlan0 up > iwconfig wlan0 key xxxxxxxxxx open # or restricted, if appropriate > iwconfig wlan0 essid XXXXXXX > > Then check the output of "iwconfig wlan0", do you get an entry for > "Access Point"? If not, try that last command another time or two. > If you still get no association, then try "modprobe -r b43 ; modprobe > b43" and repeat. > > If you finally get an association, then try: > > dhclient wlan0 > > If that doesn't help, I don't know what to suggest. You might try to > capture some wireless traffic during an association using wireshark > and open a bugzilla. tried it all ... nothing. the interface can certainly *see* the WAP using "iwlist wlan0 scan". # iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wmaster0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"XXXXXXX" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xx Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 (note that, since i used iwconfig to set the key, now it's printing it as the actual 10 digit key, as opposed to that weird ASCII format. hmmmmm ....) i've never had this much trouble before. weird. i'll go at it again on the weekend. thanks. rday ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
