Re: wireless gui configuration utility

["Umarzuki Mochlis" <umarzuki@gmail.com>]

2009/1/18 Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>:
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:53:50 +0800
> "Umarzuki Mochlis" <umarzuki@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> sadly, wicd currently won't work with my wireless: broadcomm 4315 on
>> presario CQ40-115AU. Perhaps i need  a little tweaking or something,
>> any idea?
>>
>
> One thing that needs to be done with wicd is point it at the right wireless
> interface. It changes between modules so check what yours creates (ifconfig -a)
> and point wicd to the right place (in the gui configuration)
>
> For example for my atheros card the ath5k modules creates wlan0 and madwifi
> creates ath0
>

My ifconfig -a

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1e:ec:b1:5a:76  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:280307241202 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:251 Base address:0xc000 

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:21:00:68:1d:b4  
          inet6 addr: fe80::221:ff:fe68:1db4/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING 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 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:18 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:560 (560.0 B)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 B)


iwconfig output:

eth1      IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:""  Nickname:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:off   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Managementmode:All packets received
          Link Quality=5/5  Signal level=0 dBm  Noise level=0 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

wicd settings

http://img443.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wicdoe1.png
http://img105.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wicd2aq2.png

Hope anyone can tell me what I had missed in terms of getting dhcp lease from a access point (it gives ip when connected but needs to input id and password on web browser) and any wireless network with wep.

>> 2009/1/17 Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>::
>> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:56:03PM +0000, thveillon.debian wrote:
>> >> +1 for wicd, with atheros chips (and ath5k driver) and wpa it has
>> >> performed very well. During the past release of *buntu 8.10
>> >> *NetworkManager has gone crazy on many wireless chips, especially
>> >> atheros, and since then wicd has gained a good reputation there too.
>> >>
>> >> It's in Sid/Unstable.
>> >
>> > OK.  Interesting.
>> >
>> > I will mention this in Debian Reference...
>> >
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Umarzuki Mochlis
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