--- In [email protected], "Ram Juvvadi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Thank you for your prompt reply,
> > I tried doing what you suggested, connected my laptop to the router
> > and set the WEP key on the router interface (192.168.1.1). After
doing
>
> How did you do this? through ethernet cable or wifi?
Sorry, I should have been more specific. I first connected the lan
cable and configured the router. then I yanked out the lan cable and
tried to configure the laptop.
>
>
>
> > that I tried to set the access point configuration by making the
> > following changes to /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf-
> >
> > IFNAME[4]="wlan0"
> > IPADDR[4]="192.168.1.35"
> > NETMASK[4]="255.255.255.0"
> > USE_DHCP[4]="no"
> > DHCP_HOSTNAME[4]=""
> > DHCP_KEEPRESOLV[4]="yes"
> > #DHCP_KEEPNTP[4]="yes"
> > #DHCP_KEEPGW[4]="yes"
> > #DHCP_IPADDR[4]=""
> > WLAN_ESSID[4]=RT2561_6
> > WLAN_MODE[4]=Managed
> > ##WLAN_RATE[4]="54M auto"
> > #WLAN_CHANNEL[4]="auto"
> > WLAN_KEY[4]="0x1111111111"
> > ##WLAN_IWPRIV[4]="AuthMode=WPAPSK EncrypType=TKIP
> >
WPAPSK=7B1ABEEB5D197741923ED26727569C365E31212096A0EAFAD563B268BAD01CAF
> > TxRate=0"
> > #WLAN_WPA[4]="wpa_supplicant"
> > WLAN_WPADRIVER[4]="ndiswrapper"
> >
> > the saved the file and restarted rc.inet1 by -
> > $sudo /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart
> >
> > At this stage, I get an error stating that the password is invalid.
> > Then I tried to remove 0x from the key. The password gets
accepted but
> > the connection doesn't come up.
> >
> > What could be going wrong?
> >
>
> when you setup WEP key why do you have WPAPSK uncommented in your
inet1.conf?
:-) Actually that particular line is too long and a part of it has
been text-wraped down. In my inet1.conf it WPAPSK is commented out.
> Are you sure your wireless card is wlan0 on your machine? Seems like
> you just uncommented the example section and added in the required
> feilds.
Yes, my wireless card is wlan0. Here is the output of iwconfig wlan0 -
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"RT2561_6" Nickname:"(none)"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point:
00:18:02:92:31:EC
Bit Rate=48 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=234wlan0 IEEE 802.11g
ESSID:"RT2561_6" Nickname:"(none)"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point:
00:18:02:92:31:EC
Bit Rate=48 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-27 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
6 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-27 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>
> the best aproach is to use iwconfig.
>
Can you please expatiate on this since I am not familiar with iwconfig.
And when I disable authentication in the router interface, I am able
to connect to the net.
