This thread has taken a somewhat different turn in the last few days...
I have had trouble with my e-mail and I missed a few days. Thanks
for the archives!
On Jun 20, 2007, at 9:40 AM, David L. Johnson wrote:
>I think you are being a bit harsh with both your criticism of the
list,
>and the shortcomings of the distribution. I don't have an Akita,
but a
>Borzoi, and I have an Ambicom wifi card, 802.11b, but I had no trouble
>getting all the stuff I needed.
Yes, and I apologize to the list. I was - and am - frustrated by my
inability to get this thing working and I forgot momentarily that
this is a group of dedicated individuals working on the project
because they enjoy it - as do I, but I am frustrated by the lack of
knowledge on my part, and the difficulty in obtaining it.
I came to the conclusion that I will be unable to use my WCF-11
card. I don't have the means to flash the ROM and the temporary
upload procedures tell me that my card is incompatible.
Following comments here and elsewhere I ordered and Ambicom WL1100C
CF card (Prism 3), and my first attempt was to set it up with WEP. I
did get it to connect, but it is very unstable. The connection just
drops after a few minutes, or the screen on my terminal session goes
all white until I unplug and re-insert the card.
In any event, the objective is to get WPA going. The Angstrom manual
is silent on this, so I started working through setting up a wpa
suppicant using the instructions in the OpenZaurus wiki.
I set up /etc/network/interfaces as shown in the wiki and downloaded
a copy of wpa_supplicant and installed the following network block
(anonymized):
# Only WPA-PSK is used. Any valid cipher combination is accepted.
network={
ssid="(my SSID)"
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=CCMP TKIP WEP104 WEP40
psk=( a 64 character hex number )
priority=2
}
--------------------------------
now, ifup wlan0 >ifup.txt yields the following:
run-parts /etc/network/if-pre-up.d
WPA: Configuring Interface
Could not configure driver to use managed mode
Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP
Failed to set encryption.
Failed to set encryption.
Failed to set encryption.
Failed to set encryption.
Failed to disable WPA in the driver.
FAILED
udhcpc -n -p /var/run/udhcpc.wlan0.pid -i wlan0
udhcpc (v1.2.1) started
SIOCGIFINDEX failed!: No such device
-------------------------------
For some reason, the error messages on the console are more complete
than the ones in the file including a lot of lines like
ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA] No such device
I've looked at if-pre-up.d and really can't make any sense out of it.
I'd be very grateful if someone could help me. I'm happy to RTFM is
I could find it!
:=)
Walt
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