I still cannot access to internet. May I know why??
Is it due to the Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A)


the step i did:
1) iwlist eth1 scanning
2) sudo iwconfig eth1 essid shabana key s:xxxxxx
3) invoke firefox ... cannot surf

Do I need to set dhclient??? how should I set?
DO I need to enable wpa_supplicant?

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iwlist eth1 scanning
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:23:69:B7:85:0C
ESSID:"shabana"
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality:4/5 Signal level:-63 dBm Noise level:-90 dBm
IE: WPA Version 18960
Group Cipher : Proprietary
Pairwise Ciphers (68) : IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Encryption keyn
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s


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$ sudo iwconfig eth1 essid shabana key s:xxxxxx
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument.

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$ sudo iwconfig
Password:
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"shabana" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.412 GHz Cell: 1A:875:5F:B9:8F
Bit Rate=2 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementmode:All packets received
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=-57 dBm Noise level=-89 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

sit0 no wireless extensions.


sound like I was able to connect to ESSID:shabana. Is it true??

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ifcfg-eth1

# Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n
DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=no
HWADDR=00:22:68:a0:e5:81
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
BONDING_OPTS=
DOMAIN=
MASTER=
TYPE=Wireless
USERCTL=yes
IPV6INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
ESSID=shabana
CHANNEL=
MODE=Any
SECURITYMODE=
RATE=auto



(the linux is Centos 5.4)

Hi,


The iwlist scanning says that the security on your network is WPA-PSK. Forr which you will have to enable wpa-supplicant.

Also,
on iwconfig
It seems that your wireless mode is in ad-hoc which needs to be changed to managed if you want to connect to your home network.


To change the mode, type the following commands
That should change the mode. You will have to look up how to enable wpa-supplicant. The quicker and easier option will be to change the security of the network to WEP. However, it is not very secure; but your earlier command should then work.

Hope this helps
Samsom

Thanks for your reply. I got the solution.
Here are the steps:


#cd /etc/wpa_supplicant
#vi wpa_supplicant.conf

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel

network={
ssid="wireless_home"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk="string_of_wap_password"
}

#wpa_supplicant -B -dd -ieth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

#dhclient eth1


Cheers!

BTW, what are the differences between Managed & Master mode??