Package: wireless-tools Version: 29-1.1 Severity: important Tags: patch As a new Verizon FiOS customer, I just acquired an Actiontec MI424WR GEN2 wireless router. This router apparently refuses to associate until a key has been presented. To be safe, I have patched /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools to associate with the access point *twice*. If you would prefer, I could instead rewrite the script to accumulate options and then make a single call to iwconfig, which might work for more platforms.
The fault may lie in the iwl4965 driver rather than with the access point. Norman --- /etc/network/wireless-tools-pre-up.dist 2008-07-24 09:08:30.000000000 -0400 +++ /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools 2009-08-15 11:05:40.045722045 -0400 @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ #!/bin/sh +set -x + IWCONFIG=/sbin/iwconfig if [ ! -x $IWCONFIG ]; then @@ -106,3 +108,7 @@ $IWCONFIG "$IFACE" commit fi +if [ -n "$IF_WIRELESS_AP" ]; then + $IWCONFIG "$IFACE" ap $IF_WIRELESS_AP +fi + -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages wireless-tools depends on: ii libc6 2.9-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libiw29 29-1.1 Wireless tools - library wireless-tools recommends no packages. wireless-tools suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
--- /etc/network/wireless-tools-pre-up.dist 2008-07-24 09:08:30.000000000 -0400 +++ /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools 2009-08-15 12:54:42.953733156 -0400 @@ -106,3 +106,7 @@ $IWCONFIG "$IFACE" commit fi +if [ -n "$IF_WIRELESS_AP" ]; then + $IWCONFIG "$IFACE" ap $IF_WIRELESS_AP +fi +
