wifi ko after reboot .

[technosaurus]

What does the format of the encoded "mysecret" portion have to be? I tried this by just typing in my passkey which is something like TTYUKJJUOPIKK (that is how I would type it into sns or PWF) but it was obviously not the correct format. Do I need to encode it into ascii or something?

EDIT - this is the message:

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# iwconfig eth1 essid "vodafoneE40C" enc "TTYUKJJUOPIKK"
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    invalid argument "TTYUKJJUOPIKK".
# 

iwconfig from the old wireless tools (and the newer "iw") only does wep encryption (hex digits), but it also does't require a running daemon process. For stronger WPA encryption, you need wpa_supplicant, which has horrible command line tools (there is no way to do anything without a config file) I know this is a horrible reason to use a less secure method but also some of my kids' devices only work on open/wep. I would use an open network if it weren't for "unlimited" != 'unlimited' and being on the hook for crimes a guest committed.

I may start a discussion on toybox's mail list about writing a sane WPA wireless tool with proper unix operation. You shouldn't need to write a config file to get a simple command line program to run.

[jamesbond]

... wpa_supplicant, which has horrible command line tools (there is no way to do anything without a config file)

You don't need a config file. Fatdog's initrd starts (static) wpa_supplicant without any config file, and join networks by issuing commands using wpa_cli. But you can't help needing a daemon, though.

[linus.cl]

That is very easy:

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rfkill unblock all