[Debian] Wireless working in deblet?
 

So I was able to get deblet installed and working fine except for one thing...wireless. I can connect to my router, but my n800 never gets an IP address assigned. I tried running dhclient but no luck on getting an address.

I take it from reading other posts that some of you have gotten it working? If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears.

Thanks!

Re: Wireless working in deblet?
 

You can try doing manual configuration in /etc/network/interfaces (http://trac.tspre.org/projects/deble...ork/interfaces) and see how it works. It won't be shiny and easy to switch, but it should verify what is wrong with your connection.

Re: Wireless working in deblet?
 

I don't know whats wrong with my setup but using /etc/network/interfaces OR the gnome-network-manager always kills my card. It will connect for a very brief time then it'll never work again till I reboot.

I have to setup /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf manually (info wpa_supplicant.conf).. and then run:
iwconfig wlan0 essid YourEssid
wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B
dhclient wlan0

to watch wpa_supplicant you can open a new terminal and run "wpa_cli".. it should walk you through the handshake process and tell you when it's connected and all that.

Re: Wireless working in deblet?
 

I wasnt able to make any progress by editing /etc/network/interfaces. It just tries to get a dhcp address when it boots up but never gets a valid response.

I take it that wireless in deblet just isnt quite there yet. No biggy, I can wait.

Thanks for the help!

Re: Wireless working in deblet?
 

Do you use WEP?

Re: Wireless working in deblet?
 

No. I have an open wireless router that doesn't broadcast its SSID.

My n800(running os2008,) Wii, Laptop, MythTV DVR, and various other devices have no problem connecting with the SSID not being broadcast.

Anyone else have this setup?

Re: Wireless working in deblet?
 

oh yeah... I also had problems connecting to an ssid that didn't broadcast.

Again...setting up wpa_supplicant.conf manually and adding scan_ssid 1 (i think thats right) should help.

But I don't hide it anymore since its extremely trivial and useless anyway. 2 seconds with most linux scanners will show the ssid..

But I can confirm I had problems with hidden ssid's.

Re: Wireless working in deblet?
 

Oh, I actually I think I may have had the same problem with hidden APs. I hadn't heard about the scan_ssid thing; I may give that a shot and then rehide my aps.

Re: Wireless working in deblet?
 

It's scan_ssid=1.. goes in the network = { } block.

Re: Wireless working in deblet?
 

Interesting. I'll have to see about setting up a wpa_supplicant.conf then.

Is there a good resource for that? I'll google.

Re: Wireless working in deblet?
 

Actually just type:

info wpa_supplicant.conf

Scroll down a bit to the very first network = { } block and just above it it has a ctrl_interface=DIR=/var.... etc ..

Copy all that and just paste it into /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

What to modify should be pretty obvious.