Ive tried Debian Lenny on a Dell Inspiron 1200 and a Belkin F5D7010
wireless card.
I found that Debian uses the rtl8180 driver for my card, which needed to
be blacklisted. I then had to install ndiswrapper and setup my card on
the net8185 driver instead.
But regards the wireless. I couldnt connect vis WPA2 untill I did the
following :
apt-get install wpasupplicant
gedit /etc/default/ifplugd And add the following to the file:
INTERFACES="eth0"
HOTPLUG_INTERFACES="wlan0"
ARGS="-q -f -u0 -d10 -w -I"
SUSPEND_ACTION="stop"
gedit /etc/network/interfaces
And add the following to the file:
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
# Wireless... (this section may or may not already exist)
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
gedit /etc/default/wpasupplicant
And add the following to the file: ENABLED=1
OPTIONS="-w -i wlan0 -D hostap -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf"
gedit /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf And replace everything with:
# WPA-PSK
network={
ssid="YOUR NETWORK NAME"
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=TKIP
psk="YOUR PSK KEY"
priority=4
}
After rebooting I could connect with WPA2 without any problems.
Thanks
Phillip
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 20:49 +0000, B STEVENS wrote:
> i get the same problem with debian lenny sometimes, clive, so i use a
> combination of the following commands to get it up and running:
>
> ip link set wlan0 up
> iwconfig wlan0 essid "routername"
> ifdown wlan0
> ifup wlan0
>
> if you can tell me a way of making it permanent (on boot up), i'd
> appreciate it.
>
> regards
>
> bryan
>
> --- On Fri, 23/1/09, Clive Woodfine <clivewoodfine@???> wrote:
> From: Clive Woodfine <clivewoodfine@???>
> Subject: [Hampshire] Wireless problem.
> To: "Hampshire LUG Discussion List"
> <hampshire@???>
> Date: Friday, 23 January, 2009, 5:37 PM
>
> I had the wireless networking on my laptop working properly at last
> Saturday's BaB.
>
> For some
> time I have not been able to get it to work with my router at
> home. Iwconfig shows all the correct values including the MAC address
> for the router however if I try to ping the router the result is
> "Destination Host Unreachable". I am using Ubuntu 8.04. It worked
> perfectly in the past.
>
> Running the laptop with Fedora 10 Live I can connect with no problem.
>
> Why can't I ping the router? Googling as usual shows others with the
> same fault but I have found no solution. Any pointers will be welcome.
>
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