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cwmoser · Joined: 01 Oct 2005 Posts: 20

I am using Puppy 1.0.5 and trying to get the Linksys wireless card (WPC54G) to work.

After clicking on WAG, I get:

autoconnect --- no
CWMOSER --- yes

Connected to:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g, ESSID:"cwmoser"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.412GHz Cell: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:100 Signal level:0 Noise level:0

... I think I am close but no Internet yet. BTW, I am using a WEP key that I entered into the profile:

TITLE2="cwmoser"
IP="192.168.0.33"
GATEWAY="192.168.0.1"
ESSID="cwmoser"
NWID=""
KEY="xxxxxx" <-- x's represent my secret key
MODE="Managed"
FREQ="2.437G"
CHANNEL="6"
AP_MAC=""

Any ideas why its not working?

Thanks

Carl

BlackAdder · Joined: 22 May 2005 Posts: 382

The connection data you posted seems to show that your WEP key has not been accepted. The key should be either 10 hexadecimal digits (0-9,a-f) for a 64 bit key or 26 hex digits for a 128 bit key. If it does not match with the access point/router key there will be no connection.

Looks as though you are perilously close.

keenerd · Joined: 20 Aug 2005 Posts: 175

You don't need both FREQ and CHANNEL. Just use one.

But the reported FREQ isn't matching the one you supplied. Try getting rid of FREQ and CHANNEL. As long as you're the only "cwmoser" in the area, you should be fine.

Also, your WEP key can be either a hex string or an ascii string. If it's ascii, you must change "xxxxx" to "s:xxxxx"

cwmoser · Joined: 01 Oct 2005 Posts: 20

Oh my, I feel stupid. Your responses reminded my I have my router set up to accept WPA with preshared key - not WEP. How do I instruct Puppy to utilize WPA?

Carl

BlackAdder · Joined: 22 May 2005 Posts: 382

tempestuous has created a set of wireless drivers, see this thread:
http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic.php?t=2234&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
The wpa-supplicant package is with them.

Don't know if it will work for you, but worth a try. Read the whole thread before installing, though.

Hope this helps.

cwmoser · Joined: 01 Oct 2005 Posts: 20

Reset the router to utilize WEP instead of WPA... still won't connect. Response messages are the same.

Carl

keenerd · Joined: 20 Aug 2005 Posts: 175

Are you sure you have everything set up right?

You're telling the profile to connect at 2.437G throught a Managed connection.
Instead, it goes 2.412G and Ad-Hoc.

Make the profile as open as possible, with the fewest specifics.

TITLE2="cwmoser"
IP=""
GATEWAY=""
ESSID="cwmoser"
NWID=""
KEY="xxxxxx"
MODE="Auto"
FREQ=""
CHANNEL=""
AP_MAC=""

You might need the IP and gateway information, but usually dhcpcd can take care of that automatically.

Also, make sure dhcpcd is not running before entering Profiles.

danleff · Joined: 08 May 2005 Posts: 294 Location: Albany, NY

I have this card working fine on my system. Of course, i did it by hand. I have not used wag yet.

Did you set up ndiswrapper with the drivers from you Linksys cd?

If so, what drivers did you use, the XP drivers?

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5470 Location: Australia

I suggest you try things in stages - connect with NO encryption, then try WEP, then if you're feeling adventurous try WPA.

I compiled wpa_supplicant to support ndiswrapper (amongst several drivers) so it should work (??) in conjunction with wifi-1.0.4-beta-2.pup. You need to tell wpa_supplicant which driver is being used ... thus the full command to run wpa_supplicant -
/usr/local/sbin/wpa_supplicant -ieth0 -Dndiswrapper -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d