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Model Specific Forums => Sharp Zaurus => Zaurus - pdaXrom => Topic started by: philo on April 08, 2004, 06:51:43 pm

Title: wireless connection control
Post by: philo on April 08, 2004, 06:51:43 pm

so it looks like my symbol spectrum24 card is working under 1.0.5, however i can\'t seem to get it to conenct to my wlan.

i have a hidden essid and wep, which i don\'t want to remove.  i entered all the info into the lan applet and the wireless monitor icon when clicked on shows some info, but it is trying to be connected to default, which is not my wlan.  is there an application that can replace the lan app that might be better at negotiating the wep connection?

also, it would be nice to have an on/off switch for the wifi, as it looks like it\'s always on when the card is plugged in.

thanks for any help.

philo

Title: wireless connection control
Post by: maslovsky on April 09, 2004, 02:18:36 am

Try to set parameters form the command line:

iwconfig eth0 key YOUR_HEX_OR_ASSII_WEP_KEY open
iwconfig eth0 ESSID YOUR_ESSID

If you use Shared Key scheme then replace word \"open\" with \"restricted\"

Then go to the network settings and click apply. It should connect.

Title: wireless connection control
Post by: philo on April 09, 2004, 03:21:53 am

thanks, that got it up and running.

is there any plan for a better application to manage wifi?  i\'m frequently roaming around and would like to be able to reliably switch between configurations with a few clicks of the mouse.

philo

Title: wireless connection control
Post by: PaulB on April 09, 2004, 03:57:04 am

My buffalo wlan cf card is recognized, but doesn\'t work either. Installing the pcmcia fix package made it work (like it did in 1.0.0).

-- Paul

Title: wireless connection control
Post by: maslovsky on April 09, 2004, 05:34:11 am

Quote

thanks, that got it up and running.

is there any plan for a better application to manage wifi?  i\'m frequently roaming around and would like to be able to reliably switch between configurations with a few clicks of the mouse.

philo

The PCMCIA itself already has support for so called schemes, which allow you to switch between different configuration easily. But I\'m not aware of any plans to add a GUI frontend to it...

Title: wireless connection control
Post by: philo on April 09, 2004, 12:31:06 pm

i was hoping for something akin to what is in the qtopia network app.  it has more robust settings for networks, letting you choose the key type etc.  and it lets you store them and swithc between them.  it\'s too time consuming to have to do iwconfig every time i\'m at a different location.  is there any easy way to port over that app?

i guess i could write a script that would set the iwconf, but that wouldn\'t improve pdaxrom for anyone but me...  

philo