Hello everyone. I'm running Ubuntu 7.04, and I have an Atheros based wi-fi card hence all the ath0-ing going on below. My situation is that the wireless network I need to connect to requires me to use the second key index. Here is how I've got it running on the command line:
sudo ifconfig ath0 down sudo iwconfig ath0 essid <my network name> sudo iwconfig ath0 ap <my access point's mac address> sudo iwconfig ath0 key [2] <my WEP key> sudo iwconfig ath0 key [2] sudo iwconfig ath0 key open sudo iwconfig ath0 key on sudo ifconfig ath0 up sudo dhclient ath0 ping www.google.com (pings are returned) The problems with this are: - it took me 3 hours to figure out - i don't know how to connect without first knowing the mac address of the AP i'm trying to connect to - probably the biggest problem, the connection drops after about 10 seconds unless I keep it alive by pinging somewhere What I need to be able to do: - Get network manager to accept a key for index 2 and then use it As you may have gathered, I'm stuck on this part. Both the Microsoft wi-fi manager and the custom Win32 wi-fi manager supplied with the PCMCIA card have the option to use either key 1, 2, 3 or 4. Network manager doesn't, or not that I can see, and means I don't know what to do. Is this possible to do with network manager at the moment? For preference I'd really like to get it working in NM but I'll settle for a way to keep it working for a usable period of time via the terminal. Thanks for any advice. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
