hey gang,

I just configured my wireless internet card and got it to connect successfully with encryption.. but I'm having a hard time getting an ip address assigned to it from my router.. heres what I've tried so far

root@1[ryan450]# ifconfig ath0 192.168.0.26 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
root@1[ryan450]# ifconfig
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet
HWaddr 00:0F:3D:04:02:EF

inet addr:192.168.0.26 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::20f:3dff:fe04:2ef/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:1042 errors:3479 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:3479

TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:199

RX bytes:315676 (308.2 KiB) TX bytes:2512 (2.4 KiB)

Interrupt:10 Memory:f8f20000-f8f30000

IWCONFIG is HERE

ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Fletcher"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0D:88:97:C4:7E
Bit Rate:36 Mb/s Tx-Power:50 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:0543-21 Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=28/94 Signal level=-67 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:13 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


the iwconfig is up there for the sake of it being up there... the card is configured properly I believe but if anyone sees a fluke please let me know. not sure whats going wrong with this, but when I try to connect to my router it says connection refused, and when i try any other site, not found..

I've got a few thoughts:

Since you're not using dhcp, can you verify that the correct DNS entries are in the file /etc/resolv.conf? (try `cat /etc/resolv.conf`)

Also, does the router filter MAC addresses? I know mine does, so you'd have to authorize your specific card with your network.

Hope this helps.

Alrighty.. turns out I was wrong :P.. I disabled the encryption on my router and tried to connect without encryption via my wireless card through linux.. and amazingly it did connect and worked beautifully (with DHCP)

so then, that can only mean one thing.. my encryption setting on linux was wrong.. I'm using a 64-bit WEP encryption, which is a 5 digit number that I put into my router.. now lets say that the number i specified to act as my key was 12345.. (note, I'm not using HEX numbers, my router lets me switch it over to ASCII)

in windows I just set the encryption key to that exact number 12345 and it works flawlessly.. how do you set it in linux?

Which windows do u use that allows you to enter ascii keys 12345 on the wireless card on 64 bit

WEP or do use a wireless utility that allows you to do that. Because XP uses HEX keys

64 bit encryption is equal to 10 hex characters or 5 ASCII characters

Can try HEX to ASCII and ASCII to HEX converters available on google and try to convert ur key

to HEX as it seems linux takes it in HEX.

windows XP allows you to use 5 ascii characters.. I just figured out how to enter ascii characters into linux's iwconfig.. its like this

iwconfig ath0 key s:"12345"

that takes the ascii value and turns it into a hex value auto for you..