From: Eric Bliss <eric@creativecow.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting to a WEP Airport router
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 14:23:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602071423.16392.eric@creativecow.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10602071240j737ddae9p47d8c1246de4862@mail.gmail.com>
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 12:40 pm, Grant wrote:
> Hello, my housing complex just switched to an Airport router and I
> can't seem to connect. They are supposedly using WEP. There was a
> 5-character psk at first and wpa_supplicant told me it was an invalid
> key and it had to be at least 8 characters. They switched it to a
> 13-character psk and I still can't connect, although I don't get the
> invalid key error now. Does anyone know how to connect to a WEP
> Airport router with Gentoo? Everyone else is using Windows and Mac
> and they are connecting just fine. I've tried lots of different
> configurations in wpa_supplicant.conf to no avail and all of my
> software is up to date.
>
> - Grant
>
Well, this is, if not the right way, at least A way to do it...
iwconfig eth1 essid "whatevertheairportnetworknameis"
iwconfig eth1 key xxxx-xxxx-xx
ifconfig eth1 up
dchpcd eth1
That's the script I hacked out to connect to our local WEP encrypted Airport.
Your milage may vary.
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Eric Bliss
systems design and integration,
CreativeCow.Net
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-07 20:40 [gentoo-user] Connecting to a WEP Airport router Grant
2006-02-07 20:48 ` John Jolet
2006-02-10 0:41 ` Grant
2006-02-10 1:39 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-02-12 2:34 ` Grant
2006-02-07 22:23 ` Eric Bliss [this message]
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