On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 08:35 +0100, Matthew Dale wrote: > Hello everyone. > I'm running Ubuntu 7.04, and I have an Atheros based wi-fi card hence all > the ath0-ing going on below. > My situation is that the wireless network I need to connect to requires me > to use the second key index. > Here is how I've got it running on the command line:
We can't do this yet with NetworkManager. Next version (0.7) should allow you to select your WEP key index. Dan > sudo ifconfig ath0 down > sudo iwconfig ath0 essid <my network name> > sudo iwconfig ath0 ap <my access point's mac address> > sudo iwconfig ath0 key [2] <my WEP key> > sudo iwconfig ath0 key [2] > sudo iwconfig ath0 key open > sudo iwconfig ath0 key on > sudo ifconfig ath0 up > sudo dhclient ath0 > ping www.google.com (pings are returned) > > > The problems with this are: > - it took me 3 hours to figure out > - i don't know how to connect without first knowing the mac address of the > AP i'm trying to connect to > - probably the biggest problem, the connection drops after about 10 seconds > unless I keep it alive by pinging somewhere > > What I need to be able to do: > - Get network manager to accept a key for index 2 and then use it > > As you may have gathered, I'm stuck on this part. > Both the Microsoft wi-fi manager and the custom Win32 wi-fi manager supplied > with the PCMCIA card have the option to use either key 1, 2, 3 or 4. > Network manager doesn't, or not that I can see, and means I don't know what > to do. > > Is this possible to do with network manager at the moment? > For preference I'd really like to get it working in NM but I'll settle for a > way to keep it working for a usable period of time via the terminal. > > Thanks for any advice. > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > NetworkManager-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list