Re: wireless ethernet (ralink) not working

2013-06-10 Thread lilit-aibolit
On 03/25/2013 11:08 AM, lilit-aibolit wrote: On 03/24/2013 12:13 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi, On 03/23/13 20:13, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Riccardo Mottola writes: But i am connecting to a WEP protected network, not WPA. typical hostname.if for a wep network: media autoselect nwid we

Re: wireless ethernet (ralink) not working

2013-03-25 Thread lilit-aibolit
On 03/24/2013 12:13 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi, On 03/23/13 20:13, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Riccardo Mottola writes: But i am connecting to a WEP protected network, not WPA. typical hostname.if for a wep network: media autoselect nwid wepnetwork nwkey secretasitgets dhcp rtsol acti

Re: wireless ethernet (ralink) not working

2013-03-23 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 03/23/13 20:13, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Riccardo Mottola writes: But i am connecting to a WEP protected network, not WPA. typical hostname.if for a wep network: media autoselect nwid wepnetwork nwkey secretasitgets dhcp rtsol activates at boot, or if you do 'sudo sh /etc/netstar

Re: wireless ethernet (ralink) not working

2013-03-23 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 20:04, Riccardo Mottola wrote: >> The strange part is that I don't see the lights blinking. usually >> during this operation on other operating system I see network traffic. >> > Shouldn't I always see "blinking lights" when doing a dhcp request? Even > if the key were to b

Re: wireless ethernet (ralink) not working

2013-03-23 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Riccardo Mottola writes: > But i am connecting to a WEP protected network, not WPA. typical hostname.if for a wep network: media autoselect nwid wepnetwork nwkey secretasitgets dhcp rtsol activates at boot, or if you do 'sudo sh /etc/netstart ifname' for wpa, you would change 'nwkey' to 'wpak

Re: wireless ethernet (ralink) not working

2013-03-23 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, just saying that I don't need a lesson in how to set up a network security, but how to connecto to an existing one using my card, I do wonder (read below) On 03/22/13 23:59, Riccardo Mottola wrote: I then run "dhclient ral0" but I get no link: # dhclient ral0 ral0: no link .

Re: wireless ethernet (ralink) not working

2013-03-23 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 03/23/13 11:02, Mihai Popescu wrote: No, it is the fact that you are using 'nwkey' instead of 'wpakey', a common mistake I was plagued with. Try the command 'man ral' and you will see some examples. But i am connecting to a WEP protected network, not WPA. Riccardo

Re: wireless ethernet (ralink) not working

2013-03-23 Thread Mihai Popescu
> It might be that I am trying to connect to networks of which I am not > the admin? > Riccardo No, it is the fact that you are using 'nwkey' instead of 'wpakey', a common mistake I was plagued with. Try the command 'man ral' and you will see some examples.

Re: wireless ethernet (ralink) not working

2013-03-23 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 03/23/13 00:58, Ted Unangst wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 23:59, Riccardo Mottola wrote: I thus configure ifconfig ral0 nwkey nwid , where is yyy is the network id I know and which was also found by the scan. I see the lights go up on the card. If you're trying to use WPA, yo

Re: wireless ethernet (ralink) not working

2013-03-22 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013-03-22, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 23:59, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > >> I thus configure ifconfig ral0 nwkey nwid , where is yyy is the >> network id I know and which was also found by the scan. >> I see the lights go up on the card. > > If you're trying to use WPA

Re: wireless ethernet (ralink) not working

2013-03-22 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 23:59, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > I thus configure ifconfig ral0 nwkey nwid , where is yyy is the > network id I know and which was also found by the scan. > I see the lights go up on the card. If you're trying to use WPA, you should use wpakey . If you really