I am having some trouble configuring a newly acquired belkin wireless network card. I have it working but it is a kludge and I don't know why it works so I would like some advice.
I have sorted the kernel module (rt2500.o) and I have added modprobe wlan0 to the end of rc.modules tp load it. It loads ok and I can ifconfig to my heart's content but it won't connect to my wireless router. I ran netconfig to set up dhcp but the client dhcpcd does not seem to get run. Running from the console does nothing but await the timeout.
route shows just the local loopback.
However, by accident I discovered that if I ran kwifi and configured the card to look for my router in infrastructure mode, then if I run dhcpcd wlan0 everything works. route shows that dhcp has made the necessary connections.
OK I can do this manually every time but I don't understand what it is that kwifi is doing. Obviously there is a step I am missing somewhere. Can anyone help?
I am running Slackare 10.1
Cheers
Ian
OK I can do this manually every time but I don't understand what it is that kwifi is doing. Obviously there is a step I am missing somewhere. Can anyone help?
It sounds like either your encryption is set up wrong or you are accidentally putting the card in ad-hoc mode (card to card rather than card to AP)
Then kwifi is putting the correct settings over the top.
With the encryption nothing actually knows if you have (for example) the key wrong somewhere...It's just that the requests and packets are unreadable at each end...so your DHCP request is garbled and you would be unable to decrypt the server response even if it gave you one....nothing will actually necessarily tell you this..you just won't be able to see the network even though it looks like you are connected.
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
OK I can do this manually every time but I don't understand what it is that kwifi is doing. Obviously there is a step I am missing somewhere. Can anyone help?
It sounds like either your encryption is set up wrong or you are accidentally putting the card in ad-hoc mode (card to card rather than card to AP)
Then kwifi is putting the correct settings over the top.
I have found the solution - iwconfig. I simply had to use this to set the essid and the mode and then dhcpcd did the rest.
Ian
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