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Re: airport in /etc/network/interfaces

As already has been said in a earlier post, you have to get the actual WEP key. You cant use the password apple uses (from which they calculate the WEP key somehow). You can get the WEP key with the apple aiport configuration utility by enabling the correct option ("Network equivalent password").
For me (128 bit encryption) this is a 26 digit number. For 45 bit encryption it was a smaller number.
Very convenient is the (undocumented?) option to put the following line in your /etc/network/interfaces: 

noauto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
wireless_key herecomesyour26digitkey

Then you dont have to manually iwconfig. A simple ifup is enough.
For me this works with dhcp and the new airport basestation. I dont have to give the networkname. 

-j


christophe ? wrote:


On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 01:45:34PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

Check that you have a link in /proc/net/wireless. If you don't, then
you authentication key is probably incorrect. You shouldn't use the
ASCII password you use in MacOS, but the hexadecimal one that can be
obtained via the "Network equivalent password" of the MacOS Airport
application.

Ben.


Thanks. It doesn't work yet but I have made some progress.
I realize now that the problem is not with dhcp but at a lower level.

I can see the status with 'iwconfig eth1' and everything seems fine (I
have even disabled the encryption on the base station).
But with ifconfig I see :
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:65:09:E4:D1 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 
         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:0 errors:68 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:26928 (26.2 KiB) Interrupt:57 
where I see 'TX packets:0 errors:68' which if I understand correctly
means that nothing goes in the air.

Any idea ?
Christophe
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