[TriLUG] WEP, Debian, and me again

[Roy Vestal]

Another question, I'm using the orinoco drivers under linux, but I was
wondering if I should use the wlan_ng drivers instead. again under FC1,
this card works with WEP on orinoco driver.

On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 20:29, Roy Vestal wrote:
> I have tried this, but when I do dhclient eth1 it never connects. I can
> connect to an open one though.
> 
> On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 10:49, Sam Kalat wrote:
> > 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