Wireless not connecting

Mangled · 10-04-2007, 09:05 AM

Hi all

I have Ubuntu Ultimate installed on my laptop and a Belkin 54g wireless router with 64bit WEP encryption, the problem is that the laptop picks up the signal but does not connect to it once I enter the hex key.

If anyone had a similar problem and solved it please let me know.

Thanks

farslayer · 10-04-2007, 10:26 AM

What type of wireless card ?
lspci

Where are you changing the WEP key ? GUI, command line, other ?

Can the card connect to the WAP without encryption ? (disable encryption on WAP to test)

Mangled · 10-06-2007, 12:47 AM

On lspci it has "02:01.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)".

As far as changing the wep key its all done via the GUI. (Dont know how to change it anywhere else)

I have disabled the encryption and still no luck, but it still picks up the router and now shows signal strength which it never done previously, with the wep enabled it only picked up the ssid only

replica9000 · 10-06-2007, 09:09 PM

Try this in command line as root:

Code:

iwconfig eth0 essid your-ssid

Code:

iwconfig eth0 key restricted yourhexkeyhere

Code:

dhclient eth0

Replace eth0 with whatever your computer calls your wireless card (eth0, eth1, wlan0, etc...)

Kahless · 10-07-2007, 12:03 AM

Are you able to connect to unencrypted networks?

Are you aware how worthless wep is? Unless you have a really good reason not to, it would be a good idea to try to get wpa working.

Mangled · 10-09-2007, 12:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by replica9000

Try this in command line as root:

Code:

iwconfig eth0 essid your-ssid

Code:

iwconfig eth0 key restricted yourhexkeyhere

Code:

dhclient eth0

Replace eth0 with whatever your computer calls your wireless card (eth0, eth1, wlan0, etc...)

Thanks man works great,,,,

What was the problem, why was the GUI not working?

Mangled · 10-09-2007, 03:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kahless

Are you able to connect to unencrypted networks?

Are you aware how worthless wep is? Unless you have a really good reason not to, it would be a good idea to try to get wpa working.

Yes, I did try connect without any encryption and was still unable to, it seems to be something with the GUI as soon as I tried using the commandline it worked fine. Now I know that it works I will upgrade to wpa and try to get that working. Thanks