Re: wireless-tools not working.

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 30 May 2008 12:51:52 +1000
Tony R Quilkey <trq@iinet.net.au> wrote:

> Pretty new to this, running sid.

Hi!

> Using the following wifi configuration within my /etc/network/interfaces 
> file fails.

...

> auto wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet static
>      address 192.168.10.2
>      netmask 255.0.0.0
>      network 192.168.10.255
>      gateway 192.168.10.1
>      wireless-mode managed
>      wireless-essid TSP
>      wireless-key AC45FE23ED3EDF51A78CDE45F1
>      dns-nameservers 192.168.10.100
>      dns-search thorpesystems.local
> 
> The only related message I seem to be able to find in /var/log/dmesg is 
> this....
> 
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

After doing 'ifup wlan0', what is the result of 'ifconfig wlan0' and
'iwconfig wlan0'?

> Tony.

Celejar
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