[TriLUG] WEP, Debian, and me again

[Sam Kalat]

I had a bit of pain getting my wireless card (Dell TrueMobile 1150) to work 
under Debian after relying on 'neat' in RedHat.  My memory is a bit fuzzy but 
I think this is what it took:

in /etc/network/interfaces, setup to use DHCP:
iface eth1 inet dhcp

in /etc/modules.conf, the module I use (previously was modprobing it every 
time I used the card):
alias eth1 orinoco_cs

At a loss for where else to put it, I made a small script to call (well, with 
an actual key and SSID):
#!/bin/sh
iwconfig eth1 key 0000000000000000000000000
iwconfig eth1 essid "MySSID"

I run that and do 'ifup eth1' and it works.  I bet there is a more elegant and 
approved method, but I didn't know where to look for one.  Does that help?

Sam


On Sunday 13 June 2004 09:12 pm, Roy Vestal wrote:
> OK, I know I've bugging the crap out of everyone about WEP so I'll do it
> again. :P
>
> Anyway, I have an old Fedora Core laptop that I've installed Debian
> Testing, cause I want to learn "the other side". Here's what I did on my
> FC laptop (I have more than one) and it got the wireless working:
>
> iwconfig eth1 essid mynetwork key 12345abcde678fgh
> ifconfig eth1 up
> dhclient eth1
>
>  I STILL haven't been able to get the Debian box to connect. I get
> access point address 44:44:44:44:44:44, which according to the howto's
> I've seen this means it can't see my access point. I'm litterally
> sitting next to it to make that not a problem.
>
> I know this laptop with this NIC connects to this access point under
> Windows and FC1.
>
> Thanks for the help guys and gals.
> Roy