On Thursday 13 January 2005 03:47 pm, you wrote: > 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>
I tried setting the key with the real key rather than a passwd, and I get the same results as below - NOT READY. I have no idea what else to set. I tried the network out on a friend's mac, and It Just Works (c). > 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
