On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 06:28:18PM +0100, Bernard wrote: > >are you sure your AP is set to WPA? ... > Sure it is. At this very moment, I am wirelessly connected with this ... > pre-up iwconfig ra0 essid Livebox-46db > pre-up iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK > pre-up iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=TKIP > pre-up iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK="779xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxAD"
hm, pls post output from 'iwconfig ra0' and 'iwlist ra0 scan' on that desktop - obfuscate sensitive data of course. > the pasword (or passphrase, don't exactly know how it is called: 26 key ? ;) > Ethernet card in slot 1 and the WiFi card in slot 2... but nothing > worked, I couldn't even reboot with both cards in: the boot process got > stuck in the middle. resources conflict, likely - check pccard config and dmesg/boot msg; try to insert/remove both cards when it's up and running normally, check if it hangs/freezes, check dmesg/ifconfig/iwconfig/pccardctl if the modules get loaded, resources are allocated, interfaces appears etc. > So, I hope that wifi connexions on laptops are supposed to work with > just a wifi card, and not an Ethernet card on top... of course, they're the same thing, only the medium is different. > > I went inside my DSL box, using Firefox in root mode, with ... > Security : WPA ok, but output from above commands would be of interest anyway. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
