using wireless with debian?

[Tyler Littlefield]

Hello,
I've got wlan0 and wmaster0.
This is a modem/router combination, it's something quest threw together, so 
I'll see if I can get it working by disabling wpa.
when I lspci:
00:0e.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
I've checked google and found some info on it, but it's only gotten me as 
far as I am now.
I'll keep looking for where to set my wpa. I think that's the solution, 
essid works fine.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: using wireless with debian?


> 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,
> ~~TheCreator~~
> Visit TDS for quality software and website production
> http://tysdomain.com
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> msn: tyler at tysdomain.com
> skype: st8amnd127
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "luke" <speakup at lists.tacticus.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
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> 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
>>> skype: st8amnd127
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