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Shdwdrgn

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Wifi Associates But Does Not Get Dhcp
« on: December 07, 2005, 01:07:47 pm »
We've been testing different AP's here in the lab, so I brought my Zaurus in to help gather data.  Over the last few days we have had a Netgear WGR614 v.6 on the bench which is causing me headaches.  Every wireless card we have tested works with this AP except for my Zaurus.  Even my linux laptop is connecting without problems.  On my Zaurus, iwconfig shows that the card is associated and has a strong signal, but when udhcpc kicks in, it times out and never gets an IP address.

We have been using identical SSID's and wep keys when setting up each AP (verified by the fact that I do not change any settings when I plug my wifi card into the laptop).  I'm not having problems connecting to any other AP's, so I was hoping someone might be able to tell me if there's something different I need to do to try and get a connection here?

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Netgear WGR614 v.6 access point
Zaurus SL-5500 running OZ GPE 3.5.3
D-Link DCF-660W

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Wifi Associates But Does Not Get Dhcp
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2005, 03:14:39 pm »
It might not be actually connecting correctly,  on Opie I have to put s: before my asci wep key in the applet.  Might be worth a try

Does it show you the speed you are connected at,   if it only shows 1Meg or something really slow it usually means that you have not authenticated correctly with the AP,  you can be associated with it without correctly being authenticated to connect to it

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« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2005, 06:14:22 pm »
Hmm you may be correct...  The connection speed is 2Mb, and when I manually assign an IP address, I am still unable to ping the AP.  I tried manually adding the s: to my WEP key in /etc/network/interfaces, but this has not made any difference.  What is the s: supposed to do anyway?  Are there any other such options I could try that might affect the encryption?