[Voyage-linux] Wireless setup wiki?

[Gustin Johnson]

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Ian Holm wrote:
> 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

Try "-D wext" (generic wireless extension, you did RTFM right?)

> 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?

First, ifconfig and route are depreciated, use ip instead (ip link, ip
route, ip addr, etc.).

Ifup is a script that tries to configure the device.  All ifconfig ath0
up does is make the interface active.  No different than "ip link set
ath0 up".  No ip, no route, nothing in fact gets set on the device other
than its link status.

The error usually means that you have not configured the interface
properly.  If you are not correctly binding to the AP, dhcp will fail,
and the script will error out.


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