[Voyage-linux] Wireless setup wiki?
Gustin Johnson
(spam-protected)
Thu May 7 04:38:34 HKT 2009
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Ian Holm wrote:
> 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
wpa_suplicant is for WPA *clients*. Hostap is for WPA access points.
How are you using your device? Is it a client or access point?
> /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.
Where to go next depends on what you are trying to do. See above.
>
> 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.
>
Are you trying to connect to an existing AP?
> 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.
>
I still use the latest stable version (0.5.2) for production, there
seems to be some weirdness with the radios I have and 5 Ghz under 0.6.1.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
iEYEARECAAYFAkoB9UgACgkQwRXgH3rKGfNFYwCdF6hZUafrQEwVGUex/KqD2ryt
ZogAn0G3+LnOAmraEIdSMjT39gWVjB7h
=3oLS
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
More information about the Voyage-linux
mailing list