On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 16:35 -0800, Grant wrote: > I was originally using wpa_supplicant with this Airport and it wasn't > working. John Jolet said: > > "well, you DON'T use wpa_supplicant."
I'm not aware of any issues regarding the use of wpa_supplicant with regards to WEP. It is supported. > and I've been working with wireless-tools ever since. I'm using: > > ifconfig ath0 up > iwconfig ath0 essid Myessid > iwconfig ath0 key s:Mykey > pump -i ath0 > I tried dhcpcd and it didn't work either. Knoppix was using pump > sucessfully so I tried that with Gentoo as above. > Honestly, how could this not be a package versions issue? The above > commands work on the Knoppix 4 DVD but not on up-to-date Gentoo. > > - Grant For the sake of testing change your commands to what I use. This works on all the access points that I connect to: iwconfig ath0 essid [YOUR_ESSID] iwconfig ath0 mode managed iwconfig ath0 channel [no] iwconfig ath0 enc [YOUR_HEXKEY] Maybe just specifying the channel and mode......just a long shot. Could you post the output of "iwconfig"?. Come to think of it what does your "/etc/conf/net and /etc/conf/wireless" have set. There could be some conflicting configurations. Check those two files out!!! Rob
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