Wireless...What Next?

St8ic · 05-09-2006, 01:10 AM

Howdy! I just bought an Acer Aspire 3620. It has an Atheros wireless chip. I installed PHLAK and downloaded the madwifi driver for the wireless. It installed after a simple "make" and now I have ath0 for a wireless network interface. So far so good.

Next I did a
iwconfig ath0 essid "myhouse" key mykey12345
and it completed without any error messages. But I still can't get on the internet! What else do I need to do to make this work?

Any help is very much appreciated! Thanks.

Nylex · 05-09-2006, 01:30 AM

Does your router/access point assign IPs via DHCP? If so, try "dhcpcd ath0" or "dhclient ath0" and that should hopefully get you an address.

St8ic · 05-09-2006, 01:44 AM

dhcpcd doesn't exist on this system and dhclient returns interface not existant for both ath0 and eth0 (which both exist).

...strange indeed?

Nylex · 05-09-2006, 06:09 AM

That is odd. What does ifconfig return?