has anyone gotten wireless to work right on the N810??

The wiki says to just add my information into /etc/network/interfaces and ifup wlan0.. this is not working.

After running that and watching the dhcp try and send I open a new terminal tab and wpa_cli (supposed to show you messages of the whole authentication process).. I get nothing but a CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS - every few seconds.

Even setting everything up statically without DHCP does not work.. setting my network id manually with iwconfig wlan0 essid xxx sets the ssid but.. but when i type iwconfig over and over it never authenticates/negotiates with the Access Point.

I've setup wireless wpa by hand before on various linux because wpa_supplicant interfaces haven't been all that great in the past .. but this is not acting like anything I've seen before. Running wpa_supplicant by hand (which I used to do): wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa.conf (copied from the examples directory and edited) produces the same CTRL_SCAN_RESULT every few seconds and no other output.

Something is jacked with my wireless... OS2008 Diablo still works great. I modified the debian chroot script to not overwrite my passwd/group files and not use the image to mount /debian.. I do it all by hand.. that gets me access to a network and so I an apt-get and things.. but getting wireless to working inside Debian would serious be nice since it's practically un-usable without it.

Also: IceWM definitely runs MUCH smoother than booting to XFCE.. just an observation .

ETA:
In dmesg I get the following of interest:
Constantly repeated in between menelaus setting some voltage VMMC to 3000 mV.. also over, and over, and over, again..

See the post right above yours; I got wireless working. Connects automatically on boot to University's open wireless.
Not quite as it should be, but it does work right.

(Obviously, I'm not shooting for WPA, but your first question was whether someone had gotten wireless to work, not WPA...)

yeah I saw this.. I'm not at home to test at the moment - wasn't sure if you had an N810 or not.

I added this, though I am not hopeful it'll work.. last night I manually ifdown wlan0, ifconfig wlan0 hw ether xx, ifup wlan0.. and still had the problem.. even though DHCP shows correct MAC this time.

I see some people using wireless-essid, some using wpa-ssid.. I think it has to do with WEP vs WPA.. but I wonder if WPA will need wireless-essid as well..

Actually, their will be a new beta4 version of Debian that will be comming out soon and it will use an installer instead of a tarball and the exciding part is that wifi works (wpa and wpa2, not wep from what i have seen),bluetooth works, camera works, flash works in the browser and, the all-around setup is improved. If you wish to see the current progress of the new Debian-nit-edition (aka beta4) that Stskeeps, Jhonx and, Capn_fish are working on just go to this link.

Most of that already works in mine except for wifi.. haven't tested flash yet as I have not downloaded iceweasel yet till wireless works.

The person who made the xmodmap is missing the really special characters.. he could take a look at my xmodmap file in my sig and steal my lines for the M, semicolon, and Z keys.. and any others he's missing.

Thanks, i will contact them about that. also i wanted to let you know that that wed page hasn't ben updated yet. sorry .

Its a good read and pointed me to somewhere to get the right click working.. so that will help..

Missed the N810 bit, actually; I've an N800.

Still, the wireless is the same, I'm pretty sure.

WPA was working in the sneak peek release (it was one of the first things I got working), I wonder why WEP is harder?

Also, re: "Flash in the browser", I assume that's Gnash? It still needs a bit of work. YouTube doesn't work, for example...

So i've read.. but it's not working for me. That's the problem. In the wiki and in several pages in this thread people say just add it to /etc/network/interfaces

I have done that.. with several different modifications.. none of them work. It would not negotiate anything with my AP at all.. running wpa_cli while wpa_supplicant is trying to talk to an AP should show you a bunch of 4WAY HANDSHAKE notices and crap like that.. I get nothing.. just a CTRL_SCAN_EVENT that shows up every couple of seconds.

I even redownloaded and untar'd the tarball again to see if maybe I broke something.. just adding my line to /etc/network/interfaces.. still nothing. WPA-PSK is not working for my Debian =-(.

Do you remember what you had to do to get it to work?