[Voyage-linux] Wireless setup wiki?

[Ian Holm]

This is how voyage used to connect pre-0.6.0 afaik. With the release of
0.6.0 the madwifi driver was integrated into the kernel. If I try and run
wpa_supplicant with -Dmadwifi it gives me an error saying madwifi is an
invalid driver selection. So there has to be some other way that this is
intended to be setup. One thing I still find odd is that after uncommenting
those lines in /etc/network/interfaces I get that line on boot that says
"Failed bringing up ath0" what part of that script is even trying to bring
up ath0? And why is it failing if I can just run 'ifconfig ath0 up'
successfully after boot?

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Gustin Johnson <gustin at echostar.ca> wrote:

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> Ian Holm wrote:
> > Alright, details of what I'm trying to do.
> > I'm using voyage 0.6.1 which is installed on a 1gb CF drive. It's more
> > or less a clean install with little modification. I have a Gigabyte
> > GN-WPEAG wireless card that uses one of the supported Atheros drivers,
> > not sure which one but I've looked it up and verified that it is
> > supported before.� So far all I've done is uncommented the ath0 block
> > for madwifi in the /etc/network/interfaces file and changed 'wifi1' to
> > 'wifi0' in the madwifi-base line. I am trying to use this with DHCP and
> > WPA-PSK. Since I'm using DHCP, I left the last line in the interfaces
> > block pertaining to nat.sh commented because I figured that was related
> > to using a static IP address. I haven't done anything with
> > /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf yet and haven't found any documentation on
> > what changes need to be made there. Your email is the first I've heard
>
> hostapd.conf is for setting up as an AP.  For a client connect it is not
> needed.
>
> The following is how I connect with my laptop (ubuntu based but the
> commands should be same):
>
> Generate a wpa_supplicant config:
> wpa_passphrase <essid> <passphrase> > essid.wpa.conf
>
> The filename is entirely arbitrary.
>
> Then:
> wpa_supplicant -i ath0 -D madwifi -c essid.wpa.conf
> Then for dhcp I run: "dhclient ath0"
>
> Since my laptop connects to about half a dozen APs in a given day, I do
> not automate its connection.  It only connects when I want it to.
>
>
> You should note that I did not use the flag to run wpa_supplicant in the
> background because I like to see the output.  If you are connecting to
> your voyage box via serial, then you probably want to add the "-B" flag
> or use wpa_cli.
>
> As always, the "man" command is your friend.
>
> Hth,
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