Re: wifi, knoppix, WEP

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 18:19, Robert Citek wrote:
> On Monday, Aug 23, 2004, at 17:24 US/Central, Casey Boone wrote:
> > i would open up a terminal, su - to root, and use iwconfig
> >
> > however that is what that knoppix util uses unfortunately :\
> >
> > you could try it by hand to see if maybe you can figure something more 
> > out.  also try running airsnort or kismet and see what they see (you 
> > can also put your wep keys into each and see if they can decode the 
> > frames, maybe the key you are using has transposed digits from the 
> > real key)
> 
> At this point my question seems to be, were is the error?
>   - hardware
>   - pcmcia
>   - wifi driver
>   - configuration
>   - encryption
>   - other
> 
> 'sudo kismet' failed with "unable to open cisco control file 
> /proc/driver/aironet/eth0/Config  2:No such file or directory"
> 
> At this point, I've already spent way more time than I should have.  
> Time to move on to more important projects.

Robert,

At this point I would suspect the wavelan.o driver. After you insert the
card, what do the last few lines of dmesg say? Does they indicate your
card is being recognized? If so, what happens when you manually install
the driver (I'll assume that would be wavelan.o).

Quick/dumb question: do you have it aliased in your /etc/modules.conf
file? There should be a line that looks like:
   alias eth1 wavelan
If so, what does lspci tell you after doing an 'insmod wavelan'?

Also, have you created an /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
file? It should contain something like this:
   DEVICE=eth1
   ONBOOT=no
   BOOTPROTO=dhcp
   USERNETCTL=yes
(These are the bare minimums. A proper wifi entry will contain more.)
Assuming the wavelan driver loads correctly, you should be able to run
'ifup eth1' and connect to your AP.

Once you've established basic connectivity, use iwconfig rather than
ifconfig to complete your configuration.

-- Doc 
Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL
Fedora Core 1 kernel 2.4.22-1.2199.nptl on P-III/M IBM Thinkpad A22p
"Perfection is the enemy of good enough."
                         -- Admiral of the Fleet Sergei G. Gorshkov


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