Glad to be able to report that this card now works on an open router. This is good progress. On turning on wpa-psk and entering the key in /etc/network/interfaces i can't bring up ath0: Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device ath0 ; Invalid argument. Failed to bring up ath0
Googling leads to the need to configure wpasupplicant as Craig suggests. Tonight or tomorrow... Roger Craig FALCONER wrote: > Hi Roger - I have struggled through WPA several times in the last couple of > months. > > Firstly, WPA support under linux demands that you run a daemon called > wpa_supplicant. Some distros package this as wpasupplicant. Without this > you simply don't get WPA. > > wpa_supplicant handles all the password stuff as well as selecting the best > network available from a priority list. You can see what its doing by > running wpa_cli in another window. > > Also, I believe that wlan0 (or wifi0 as mine is) is not a real device.... > Instead it's a master device that can provide multiple athX devices on the > same card so that you can do lots of cool stuff. > > Which drivers are you using? Madwifi, madwifi-ng (me), or hostap, or > something else? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Roger Searle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 25 July 2006 7:34 p.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: no dhcpoffer > > > I have a functional wireless card now, but when the card goes looking for > the router no dhcpoffer is received by the card. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo ifup ath0 > Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3 > Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium. > All rights reserved. > For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP > > Listening on LPF/ath0/00:13:46:74:9a:d0 > Sending on LPF/ath0/00:13:46:74:9a:d0 > Sending on Socket/fallback > .... > No DHCPOFFERS received. > No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. > > I have set the router so that it is NOT filtering by MAC address, it is WPA > pre-shared key, and I have checked there is a match with the channel, ssid > and password from /etc/network/interfaces: > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > auto eth1 > iface eth1 inet dhcp > > auto eth2 > iface eth2 inet dhcp > > auto ath0 > iface ath0 inet dhcp > pre-up /sbin/iwpriv ath0 mode 0 > pre-up /sbin/iwconfig ath0 essid rnsRouter channel 10 key abcde12345 > > auto wlan0 > iface wlan0 inet dhcp > > Anyone have any suggestions what I could do? > > Cheers, > Roger > > >
