It appears that iwconfig is failing to set your WEP key. If your password has any charcters that are significant to the shell, you need to escape them. What does iwconfig report if you run the commands by hand? Specifically after running:
iwconfig eth1 essid Mary iwconfig eth1 key s:<some passwd> -DCM- On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:18:40 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying valiantly to set up wireless. I'm at the point now where I get > the following: > > * Configuring wireless network for eth1 > /lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d/iwconfig: line 340: iwconfig_get_essid_var: > command not found > * eth1 does not support setting keys > * or the parameter "mac_key_" or "key_" is incorrect > * Failed to configure wireless for eth1 > > /etc/conf.d/wireless has : > > essid_eth1="Mary" > #essid_eth1="any" > key_Mary="s:<some passwd>" > preferred_aps=( "Mary" ) > > /etc/conf.d/net has: > iface_eth0="dhcp" > iface_eth1="dhcp" > > iwconfig reports: > eth1 NOT READY! ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Mary" > Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 > Tx-Power=31 dBm Sensitivity=0/200 > Retry min limit:0 RTS thr=0 B Fragment thr=0 B > Encryption key:off > 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 > > Any advice appreciated. Thanks. > > -- > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
