My Wireless Troubles
I'm using a Toshiba Satellite A70 laptop, Atheros (built-in AR5212
wireless card), madwifi-ng (I do not know when the CVS is from),
2.6.14-686-smp, Pentium 4 H-T, Sid, KDE 3.5.
Problem 1: Every now and again, I am disconnected -- in some way. I do
not know how. I do know that if I type in iwconfig ath0 essid My_ESSID,
it works. I should like to give you more information, but I know not
where to find it.
Problem 2: Every time I boot in to Linux, I must execute the following
command: wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta. Now,
according to http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/Debian, I can make
a script, namely
#!/bin/bash
/usr/local/bin/wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta
/sbin/iwpriv ath0 mode 3
exit 0
which then is to be placed as /etc/network/madwifi, made executable.
Finally, the following lines are to be added to the
/etc/network/interfaces
iface ath0 inet static
...
pre-up /etc/network/madwifi
all of which I did. It doesn't work. I still have to execute the command to get an ath0 device.
Problem 3: I use KWiFiManager to connect. To do so, I must enter the
module Wireless Network in the Control Centre (via KWiFiManager). I
have saved the configuration (namely, the ESSID, the Operation Mode,
the Speed, the script to execute upon connection and the WEP-Key.) and
ticked the box that says Load preset configuration on startup. Well,
that certainly doesn't work. I have to manually bring up the ath0 (via
that there command) and, unless I hit the activate button in the
Wireless Network module, ifconfig claims that ath0 is not up. In
addition, hitting Scan for Networks in the KWiFiManager shows me
networks. But, when I try to switch to one with a WEP, it says that it
is Aborting network switching due to invalid WEP key specification.
This network is my own, fo which I have provided a valid WEP key
specification in the Wireless Network Control Centre Module.
That's basically it. How do I solve these problems?
I thank you kindly in advance for any assistance.
Cheers.
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