On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Dave Burns <tburns@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Is there a canonical source to RTFM? Googling gets a million hits, no >> relevance so far. >> >> I am trying to connect to a WEP network. I left click on the >> NetworkManger icon upper right, select 'connect to other wireless >> network', it opens a dialog, I type in network name, select 128 bit >> wep and enter the key, hit connect. log contents after that: >> [root@iprctmp1 mail]# tail /var/log/messages [...] >> > > Hey, man, many of us have been there. > > Can I ask some basics? > > 1. Can you connect to ANY wireless networks, ones without WEP or other > encryption? The WEP is the only network I have access to. > > 2. You can try two approaches to get connections. EITHER use > NetworkManager or you can try the manual approach. But both don't > generally work at the same time. NetworkManager will wreck your > manual effort, and your manual effort will frustrate NetworkManager. > > To use NetworkManager, use system-config-services to turn ON > networkManager and turn OFF network and wpa supplicant. In Fedora 8, > I'm getting pretty good results with that. The alternative is to > turn OFF NetowrkManager, wpa supplicant, and leave network on. So wpa_supplicant never on, network and NetworkManager pick one not both. Isn't there an encryption issue with NM? I think I tried with network off and still no joy, could that be my problem? Also wpa_supplicant was acting strange - I used every means to stop it, init would start it again. It must've gotten into inittab. But I think my latest reboot has put a stake in its heart. So the plan is * make sure network and wwpa_supplicant off, try once more with NM *if no good, turn off NM, turn on network, fiddle with network-scripts *if still no good, maybe try wifi-radar *google iwconfig > and do the really old fashioned way, the commands like "iwconfig" and > such that you can google about. > If you turn off networkmanager, in system-config-network, you can go > into the wirelss thing and put in your wep key. If it is hexadecimal, > and I think most of them will be, you put 0x at the front of the > string. Ah! That could have been my problem! > I once visited a place with a 128 bit key and it made me > laugh to type it out 0xabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. That will get > written into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts in a file called > wlan0-keys or such, and you can study how that is put together. > Sometimes, I have found it really does help to specify the channel on > which the router is broadcasting in the setup file. How would I know the channel? > 3. Run "/sbin/iwlist scan" to see a list of wireless access points. > Does the server you are looking for appear in the way that you expect? Don't know yet, I'm out of range now. I'll try it tomorrow. > I don't have the Broadcom card that you have. Mine are all Intel, and > I know the Broadcoms were slower to receive support. Geez, this laptop's 3 years old! Guess Dell didn't sell many of them to linux enthusiasts. Anyhow, thanks much. Dave -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
