sorry for yet another “can’t connect wireless” post, but…
I have an eeepc701, wireless with 128bit WEP and hidden ESSID, running r41280 gcc4 hybrid. I can run ifconfig list and see all the wireless in my neighbourhood. I type ifconfig join <my 128bit hex wep password>. All seems good. Tried network prefs, network applet (both dhcp and static), ifconfig auto-config, ifconfig 192.168.0.42, all to no avail. The router doesn’t list it in the DHCP leases (obviously), and I can’t see any activity. Ping reports no route to host - tried manually adding, still no good.
Am I doing something wrong? I have read all the wireless posts and the docs I could find - this was previously working fine with setwep. Should I put the ifconfig into the local boot script? Would that help the network prefs?
Been playing some more - copied the setwep utility from previous (working) system. Abracadabra, everything works now, I haven’t checked the code itself, but there must be something different between the new ifconfig implementation and the setwep utility.
Hope this helps others who have broken WiFi (until ifconfig is fixed).
With the one month older nighlly build I had no problems with DHCP I got the correct IP Number bit late ca. 3min but it worked out of the box with iprowifi3945abg (Intel Pro Wireless)…
so something must be happened since then… sorry I dont have the old rev. number of the build…
Me as well; I’ve been using wireless happily for a while on my Ace Aspire One, atheros chipset, but since trying a new nightly, 41301 gcc2hybrid, I am having trouble connecting. Network Preferences app hangs after I input my settings, and I get no connection.
You may need to open a new ticket, r41285 fixed some DHCP issues ( ticket#7346: Incorrect DHCPClient behavior in some instances) , but this may have caused some regressions.
For me, DHCP and wireless networking is now working as expected even when there is more than one wireless network in range.
The plot thickens:
when I start up and don’t try to input settings in the Network Prefences, then all is ok, The pane displays my ethernet and wireless hardware, “Choose Automatically”, and DHCP, and the connection is fine.It chooses my preferred router, I guess from the wireless_networks file which I gave it.
Perhaps I was too hasty in trying to get it to do something it was going to do anyway.
I’ll try to see what is making NetPref hang.
Don’t anthropomorphize computers, they hate it when you do that.
