Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect -solved

2011-06-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Jun 2011, Brian wrote: > On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 16:16:47 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > 02:02.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 > > 802.11abg NIC [168c:1014] (rev 01) > > According to the Debian wiki ath5k is the driver for an AR5212. It also > appears yo

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect -solved

2011-06-24 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 16:16:47 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > 02:02.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 > 802.11abg NIC [168c:1014] (rev 01) According to the Debian wiki ath5k is the driver for an AR5212. It also appears your kernel knew this. Not being able to load

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect -solved

2011-06-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Jun 2011, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 23 iun 11, 12:06:54, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > Thanks, Philipp - you were right and gave me the clue. There are two > > modules available, ath5k and ath9k. I was using ath5k because that is > > what the docs talk about, but when I changed to a

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect -solved

2011-06-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 iun 11, 12:06:54, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > Thanks, Philipp - you were right and gave me the clue. There are two > modules available, ath5k and ath9k. I was using ath5k because that is > what the docs talk about, but when I changed to ath9k the connection > came up correctly. Excelle

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect

2011-06-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 iun 11, 13:24:35, Teemu Likonen wrote: > > In my Acer Aspire One laptop the wireless (ath5k) network started > working when I installed package "hostapd". I don't know what it does > but my laptop needs it. :-) My system is Debian 6.0 and I use wicd to > manage networks. I doubt you nee

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect

2011-06-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Jun 2011, Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2011-06-22T22:35:47+01:00 * Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I'm trying to set up wireless on a Thinkpad T41. I'm using the ath5K > > module and this brings up wlan0 as expected. I fiddled all day with > > /etc/network/interfaces with no luck. I then tried wic

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect -solved

2011-06-23 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Anthony Campbell's message of 2011-06-23 13:06:54 +0200: > On 23 Jun 2011, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > Hi Anthony, > > I had similar problems in the past. Seemingly working wireless but not > > really. In my case it boiled down to drivers that didn't really work, > > but this was a

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect -solved

2011-06-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Jun 2011, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > Hi Anthony, > I had similar problems in the past. Seemingly working wireless but not > really. In my case it boiled down to drivers that didn't really work, > but this was a broadcom chip. I guess the semi-open drivers still don't > work for BCM4312 LP-PH

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect

2011-06-23 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2011-06-22T22:35:47+01:00 * Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm trying to set up wireless on a Thinkpad T41. I'm using the ath5K > module and this brings up wlan0 as expected. I fiddled all day with > /etc/network/interfaces with no luck. I then tried wicd and this does > show my router, but it won't

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect

2011-06-23 Thread Brian
On Thu 23 Jun 2011 at 09:32:53 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I was trying that line for a time but then, after reading the docs, I > found that ath5k gives wlan0. How did substituting wlan0 for ath0 work out? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect

2011-06-23 Thread Brian
On Thu 23 Jun 2011 at 09:37:43 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:"My Router" > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:19:5B:3B:E7:6C > > Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Association takes place then. What do 'ifconfig -a' an

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect

2011-06-23 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Anthony Campbell's message of 2011-06-23 10:37:43 +0200: > On 23 Jun 2011, William Hopkins wrote: > > On 06/22/11 at 10:35pm, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I'm trying to set up wireless on a Thinkpad T41. I'm using the ath5K > > > module and this brings up wlan0 as expected. I fiddled

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect

2011-06-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Jun 2011, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/22/11 at 10:35pm, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I'm trying to set up wireless on a Thinkpad T41. I'm using the ath5K > > module and this brings up wlan0 as expected. I fiddled all day with > > /etc/network/interfaces with no luck. I then tried wicd and t

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect

2011-06-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Jun 2011, Brian wrote: > > allow-hotplug ath0 > iface ath0 inet dhcp > wpa-ssid "unhidden" > wpa-psk "double quotes if ascii/none if hex" > > But remove wicd first, unless you believe it will not interfere with > ifupdown. You shouldn't need the last line. > I was trying that

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect

2011-06-22 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/22/11 at 10:35pm, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm trying to set up wireless on a Thinkpad T41. I'm using the ath5K > module and this brings up wlan0 as expected. I fiddled all day with > /etc/network/interfaces with no luck. I then tried wicd and this does > show my router, but it won't connect

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect

2011-06-22 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 23:35:47 Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm trying to set up wireless on a Thinkpad T41. I'm using the ath5K > module and this brings up wlan0 as expected. I fiddled all day with > /etc/network/interfaces with no luck. I then tried wicd and this does > show my router, but it wo

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect

2011-06-22 Thread Brian
On Wed 22 Jun 2011 at 22:35:47 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm trying to set up wireless on a Thinkpad T41. I'm using the ath5K > module and this brings up wlan0 as expected. I fiddled all day with > /etc/network/interfaces with no luck. I then tried wicd and this does > show my router, but i

Wicd sees router but won't connect

2011-06-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm trying to set up wireless on a Thinkpad T41. I'm using the ath5K module and this brings up wlan0 as expected. I fiddled all day with /etc/network/interfaces with no luck. I then tried wicd and this does show my router, but it won't connect. Are there any tweaks that may make it connect? The ro