Package: wireless-tools Version: 30~pre9-5 Severity: important i try to connect to a wep protected wireless access point.
with the folowing configuration : auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wireless-essid Intrawep wireless-key 9638520741 wireless-mode managed wireless-enc on wireless-ap 00:0B:3B:3F:26:00 $ifup wlan0 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.1.1-P1 Copyright 2004-2010 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:24:8c:42:86:db Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:24:8c:42:86:db Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 NO DHCPOFFERS recieved No working leases in persistant databases - sleepeng $iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"Intrawep" Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:9638-5207-41 Power Management:off but if I configure this way : auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet manual $iwconfig wlan0 key '9638520741' mode managed essid 'Intrawep' enc on ap 00:0B:3B:3F:26:00 $dhclient -v wlan0 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.1.1-P1 Copyright 2004-2010 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:24:8c:42:86:db Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:24:8c:42:86:db Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 bound to 192.168.1.19 -- renewal in 34338 seconds. $iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"Intrawep" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point: 00:0B:3B:3F:26:00 Bit Rate=36 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:9638-5207-41 Power Management:off Link Quality=52/70 Signal level=-58 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 I see two differences here : ifup begin by a DHCPDISCOVER dhclient use DHCPDISCOVER only if DHCPREQUEST didn't succeed but DHCPDISCOVER should work too The second difference is the configuration of wlan0 wich seems to be incomplete, mainly ap not configured and other option wich i do not know if they are important or not. i guess the problem must come from the pre-up script wireless-tools, i have still not investigated further. please tell me if you experience the same problem, if so it is a serious problem in this package. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990, 'stable'), (90, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (10, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages wireless-tools depends on: ii libc6 2.11.3-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libiw30 30~pre9-5 Wireless tools - library wireless-tools recommends no packages. wireless-tools suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
