[Voyage-linux] Wireless setup wiki?

[Punky Tse]

Hi Ian,

The latest README (section 3.8 and 3.9) in subversion cover wpa hostap 
and supplicant setup.

http://svn.voyage.hk/repos/voyage/trunk/voyage-live/config/chroot_local-includes/README

Regards,
Punky

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 
> /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 
> <mailto: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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