using wireless with debian?

[Kerry Hoath]

Keep it simple then make it complicated.
Turn off your wpa for testing; and see if you can associate with the access 
point when it is open.

This is a short term solution whilst you figure out what is going on with 
your wireless setup.
At no point have you specified which sort of wireless card you have; which 
limits how much anyone can help you.

Wireless cards often have 2 interfaces; one for configuration and one for 
ethernet packets. An example,
my atheros based card has wmaster and wlan0.
wmaster is used for setting specific attributes on the card,
wlan is one of possibly many virtual interfaces.
Other cards have wlan0 and eth1,

You need to tell dhcp to use the ethernet portion of the wireless card, not 
the configuration interface.

I'm sorry I don't use WPA on this network, I have legacy wm2005 smartphones 
that only talk wep.
In order to get wep working I ran iwconfig on the wireless portion of the 
card, set essid keys etc then ran dhcpd on the ethernet portion.
man interfaces
if this is a debian box, you can set up wireless in /etc/network/interfaces.
Beyond that I can't help much without googling up the information you need; 
something you're more than likely capable of doing yourself.
Regards, Kerry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler at tysdomain.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: using wireless with debian?


OK, I've edited the networks file so that ifup will work with wlan0. now,
when I do dhclient, here's what I get.
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:1e:e5:9f:62:f3
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:1e:e5:9f:62:f3
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
the only thing that dmesg yields is:
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
which doesn't seem to be much of a problem.
I can iwlist scan, and see the router I want.
when I do iwconfig essid "my network" it shows up on iwconfig wlan0, but I'm
not able to see where to put in the wpa key--I filled out my wpa config
file, for wpa_supplicant but it doesn't seem to be connecting me to the
router.
It might also be worth noting that ifconfig wlan0 does not give an IP
address.
I hope I've provided enough info--I'm totally lost here. I've followed docs,
and it seems to have not worked as well as I would have hoped.
Thanks,
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "luke" <speakup at lists.tacticus.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: using wireless with debian?


> Checkout wireless-tools, wpasupplicant, and related packages.
>
> Luke
>
>
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> It seems as if my card was recognized,
>> Now is the question of how to connect it to the router via
>> wireless--where would I go about setting up the name, and the wpa key,
>> etc?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ~~TheCreator~~
>> Visit TDS for quality software and website production
>> http://tysdomain.com
>> visit the piratecafe for programming related resources:
>> http://piratecafe.net
>> msn: tyler at tysdomain.com
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