[Voyage-linux] Wireless setup wiki?

[Ian Holm]

So I've read /README and tried uncommenting the ath0 lines for madwifi in
the /etc/network/interfaces and i changed the madwifi-base wifi1 line to
madwifi-base wifi0 because that's the name of my device but I'm not sure how
to setup WPA-PSK correctly. I read the ubuntu wiki on setting up wpa using
wpa_supplicant but apparently wpa_supplicant isn't installed the usual way
on voyage linux. There is no /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf by default and the
/etc/network/interfaces file doesn't even reference the wpa_supplicant
command so i guess it's using something else. I really have no idea how it's
set up.

So as of now I really need any kind of directions on how to properly setup
wireless with WPA. Another odd thing is that after uncommenting those lines
in the /etc/network/interfaces file, on boot, when it tries to bring up the
interfaces it seems to correctly create the ath0 node and everything goes
great, then it does something with 'lo' for loopback interface and the next
line says "operation not permitted" followed by "failed bringing up ath0".
However, after boot is complete i can run 'ifconfig ath0 up" without any
problems. The interface comes up and everything looks normal except i'm not
connected to any ssid and there is no encryption settings. It's just a plain
interface that's unconnected.

I would really appreciate it if anyone who has experience with wpa, wifi,
and voyage 0.6.0+ could give some input on what to do here. Thanks.

-Ian Holm


On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Punky Tse <punkytse at punknix.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Please read /README or /etc/network/interfaces
>
> Regards,
> Punky
>
> Ian Holm wrote:
>
>> Is there any sort of up-to-date wiki anywhere that tells how to setup
>> wireless for voyage 0.6.0 or 0.6.1? since the madwifi driver is built into
>> the kernel and hostap was added I'm not quite sure how everything is
>> supposed to be set up. Is it simply an issue of just uncommenting the right
>> lines in /etc/network/interfaces? Or do I have to customize certain lines to
>> my setup? If so, which lines?
>>
>> -Ian Holm
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