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Title: Ox 3.5.2 And Wlan
Post by: pumo on December 06, 2004, 04:16:14 pm

I have  DLINK  dcf-660W wlan cf card and  I can't get it work at all. It gets IP address from dhcp, (from my own dhcp server not from AP) but it even won't ping dhcp server or AP or anywhere.
In wlan0 start/stop 802.11b tab  cuts link to AP and sometimes wifi0 gets up, even I have put not automatically start.
when it finds AP ESSID have lots of strange marks after ESSID name.

when I got wlan0 up and pinging to wlan AP and dhcp server, and with right dns, it says that network is unreachable when pinging dns.

It think I put Sharp rom back ...  

Title: Ox 3.5.2 And Wlan
Post by: Shdwdrgn on December 06, 2004, 04:27:36 pm

Are you running opie or gpe?  I have the same wireless card and have gotten it to work under both.

In Opie, I plugged in the card, set the wifi info under settings/network, and it connected to my wlan.

In GPE, there is still a bit of work to be done, however after plugging in the card, I went to a command line and typed: iwconfig wlan0 essid <wlan_id>
You will need to re-issue this command only once after every reboot, but you should be up and running then.

Note that I have heard there may still be issues with WEP settings, however it you're not using WEP, you should have no problems.

Title: Ox 3.5.2 And Wlan
Post by: pumo on December 06, 2004, 04:28:31 pm

it works, sorry to bother.
I read from here that wifi0 should disable,
https://www.oesf.org/forums/inde...?showtopic=7022 (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=7022)
but if's on and works...

Title: Ox 3.5.2 And Wlan
Post by: pumo on December 06, 2004, 04:42:12 pm

i use opie, and without wep for sometime...

Title: Ox 3.5.2 And Wlan
Post by: al on December 07, 2004, 07:36:09 pm

I don't have to disable anything, but when I use WEP, if doesn't work. It appears to be scanning, but never picks up an ip.

Does anybody know if this will be investigated, or if WPA will be implemented at a later date?

Al.

Title: Ox 3.5.2 And Wlan
Post by: CoreDump on December 08, 2004, 08:03:51 am

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Does anybody know if this will be investigated, or if WPA will be implemented at a later date?

If WEP doesn't work for you, it's most likely that your WEP password is wrong.

Note:
In opie-networksettings you may not just enter an ASCII WEP passwort
(ie "some_password"). If you want to do that, you'll have to prefix it with "s:"
(ie "s:some_password").

Otherwise the system will assume that "some_password" is a HEX key and hence won't work.

WPA works right now using wpa_supplicant. Zecke (Opie dev) was so nice to include it into OE.
However, there is no GUI to configure it, and only experienced linux users may actually be able to use it.

If you want to have a go at it, google for "wpa_supplicant" howtos. It's exactly the same as on a normal
Linux desktop machine.

Another problem with WPA might be your CF WLAN card. I had to upgrade the firmware of my Bufallo for WPA to work.

Title: Ox 3.5.2 And Wlan
Post by: al on December 08, 2004, 01:00:43 pm

I re-checked my settings. It works!!

All I did was make sure that I was using UPPERCASE in the HEX. THere was no need to use "s:". Simple as that.

Al.

Title: Ox 3.5.2 And Wlan
Post by: takosan on December 22, 2004, 06:15:34 pm

For the WPA stuff I found this sample on the web:

# This is a basic configuration for WPA with pre-shared keys (WPA-PSK)

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
network={
   ssid="YOUR_SSID"
   psk="YOUR WPA PASSWORD IN HEX OR ASCII"
   key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
   pairwise=CCMP
   priority=5
}

Where do I create this wpa_supplicant.confg (is it right?) file in?  I want my OZ 3.5.2 SL-5500 to be able to connect to my router that is using WPA-PSK.

Thanks,
Robert