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I am trying to get my netbook to connect to the internet via wifi with WEP. (It's fine, nobody's in range to crack it anyway) I am not a linux expert, but I have researched on the web for awhile and tried the various guides to slitaz wifi as well as some things I saw in forum posts. I have learned about iwconfig, ifconfig, network.conf, lspci, etc but I haven't been able to fix the problem and the weekend will be over soon so I would like some advice/help. First, the netbook has an AR2425 which is apparently also known as AR5BXB63 for its wifi adapter. (There is a sticker on the bottom which says AR5BXB63) It has the ath5k module which is supposed to work but doesn't seem to be. I can connect via ethernet just fine, but all I can do with the wifi is get it to show, but not connect to, my router.
Here is some information from lspci, ifconfig, and the like.
"lspci | grep [Ee]th" ~~~Returns the realtek ethernet controller and...
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x / 542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
"ifconfig" ~~~ returns the loopback (lo) and...
wlano Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:4E:52:D7:FA
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 tzquelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
iwconfig ~~~ returns lo, dummy0, and eth0 as no wireless extensions and...
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"<my essid here>"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragmnt thr:off
Encryption key:<my 40 hex digit wep key here>
Power Management:off
"cat /etc/network.conf" ~~~ returns, and since I'm typing i removed the comments,
INTERFACE="wlan0"
DHCP="yes"
STATIC="no"
NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
GATEWAY="192.168.1.1"
DNS_SERVER="192.168.1.1"
WIFI="yes"
WIFI_INTERFACE="wlan0"
WIFI_ESSID="<my essid here>"
WIFI_MODE="managed"
WIFI_KEY="<my wep key here>"
WIFI_KEY_TYPE="on"
WPA_DRIVER=""
WIFI_CHANNEL=""
WIFI_IWCONFIG_ARGS=""
"dmesg | grep ath" returns...
ath5k 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ath5k 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
ath5k 0000:03:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x65
ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
ath: Regpair used: 0x65
Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::rx
Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::tx
ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)
ath5k 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
ath5k 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ath5k 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
ath5k 0000:03:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x65
ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
ath: Regpair used: 0x65
Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::rx
Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::tx
ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)
"lsmod" returns
ath5k 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ath5k 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
ath5k 0000:03:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x65
ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
ath: Regpair used: 0x65
Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::rx
Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::tx
ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)
ath5k 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
ath5k 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ath5k 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
ath5k 0000:03:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x65
ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
ath: Regpair used: 0x65
Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::rx
Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::tx
ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)
Module Size Used by Not tainted
ath5k 111977 0
ath 9811 1 ath5k
mac80211 145388 1 ath5k
cfg80211 99896 3 ath5k,ath,mac80211
rfkill 10682 1 cfg80211
snd_hda_codec_realtek 202176 1
snd_hda_intel 15886 1
snd_hda_codec 45027 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 3808 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 43737 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 12515 1 snd_pcm
snd 33394 8 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 3357 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 4853 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
i915 254040 2
drm_kms_helper 18798 1 i915
drm 111992 3 i915,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 3479 1 i915
button 3602 1 i915
i2c_core 12192 4 i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
video 9783 1 i915
output 1144 1 video
intel_agp 7908 1 i915
intel_gtt 9214 3 i915,intel_agp
agpgart 18221 3 drm,intel_agp,intel_gtt
"lspci | grep -i network" returns...
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
I may have given some information twice, sorry about that. Also, I stopped typing midway and started >> info.txt onto a flash drive. I'm on linux on this computer too, but .txt is still in me.
Thanks in advance for the help!
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There is a bug with WEP passwords in slitaz.
Try to connect to the wifi with the wifi routers security off to verify the hardware/driver is working.
If you can associate,get i.p.,surf web then turn security back on.
Enter the wifi key without ""
Change:
WIFI_KEY="<my wep key here>"
to
WIFI_KEY=<my wep key here>
Reference:
http://hg.slitaz.org/slitaz-boot-scripts/file/1f4bcf5a8878/etc/init.d/network.sh Line 72->81
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I wish I knew to look at the comments in the script... I'll remember next time. The hardware/driver worked with security off, and after looking up the WEP bug I found the following post:
(http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/slitaz-40-wep-code-not-accepted-for-my-airlink1444-router)
In that post it was said that not only must the WEP key not be in quotations, but the key type must be set to wep, which I hadn't actually done- it was set to "ON". Problem solved!
Pertinent values for future people with the problem:
WIFI_KEY=<Your WEP key without quotations around it>
WIFI_KEY_TYPE="WEP"
Naturally, you must also have wifi enabled and have the interface set to your wireless adapter. Thank you, mojo, for the quick help!
Edit: I can't edit my first post to mark this as solved.
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