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Anyway, using the iwconfig gui I changed eth0 to ath0, entered ssid, channel and no wep ... but still not working. So, at this point what should I try next?

I think you need to assign an IP address either via dhcp or statically.

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In addition, please, also explain how to obtain help for a particular command. I can't remember anymore but during the time I dealt with DOS 6.22(I believe) I used type /?, or /h, or something like this, next to the DOS command name and I would get the command help.

Usually -h or --help (sometimes even -help). There are also "man" and/or "info" pages you could use.

EDIT: heh, looks like I'm late in replying :P

The pump command has always worked for my ath0s cards.

So for mine:

sudo iwconfig ath0 channel 52 essid "Wireless"
sudo pump -i ath0

Substitute your own channel and essid, of course, and include wep if used in hex format as Robert noted (pairs separated by colons).

In some cases it's necessary to freshly insert the card before issuing the iwconfig commands, which can be done manually or include in the script:

sudo cardctl eject
sudo cardctl insert

For those of you that have had success with cards using the Atheros chipset, did you ever get wpa working using wpa_supplicant? On my Dell Inspiron 2600 laptop I'm using an SMC cardbus adapter that I believe uses the AR5212 chipset. I've also tried it on a Dell Latitude C600. Both can associate with APs without encryption but wpa_supplicant always fails under DSL. However, on those same laptops it will work when running Puppy or Ubuntu.

This is what happens on mine when I try to associate to my WAP from the command line:

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dsl@box:~$ sudo wpa_supplicant -Dmadwifi -iath0 -cwpa_supplicant.conf
Trying to associate with SSID 'ManayunkNeedsMoreDrunks'
Trying to associate with 00:c0:49:fe:06:a0 (SSID='ManayunkNeedsMoreDrunks' freq=2412 MHz)
ioctl[IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETMLME]: Argument list too long
Association request to the driver failed
Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
Trying to associate with SSID 'ManayunkNeedsMoreDrunks'
Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.

This is what's in my wpa_supplicant.conf file (fake key, same length):

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ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
# Search for hidden SSIDs
ap_scan=2

network={
ssid="ManayunkNeedsMoreDrunks"
scan_ssid=1
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
psk="WRqNjQnGt1b8OpiZbNJ2IIzraJQLdnPIxNF0eRZIiLgHvMcrEs0LhvFCv6KgPyt"
}

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For those of you that have had success with cards using the Atheros chipset, did you ever get wpa working using wpa_supplicant?

I had no luck with WPA and also found it worked in Puppy.
Using the Netgear WG511T (atheros chipset) it works fine in WEP but I can't get it working in WPA. I have just retried my experiences last year with the new DSL 4.4 but the results are exactly the same

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=19378

It would be good to have people post detailed instructions on how they got WPA working so that we may, hopefully, work it out.

Here are few posts which may point a way ....
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....1;st=20
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=18457

hi setecio,

thanks for those links. glad there are other people in the same boat. unfortunately, they all suggest the use ndiswrapper. dunno about you but I plan to get that damn madwifi driver working. i feel like the first message that I get "ioctl[IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETMLME]: Argument list too long" has got to be a clue as to whether this is an issue with wpa_supplicant or the kernel modules. since the card works with WPA on every other OS, my guess is that it's the kernel modules.

i have a ralink card that won't work in DSL because the kernel was compiled with SMP support. I wonder if there's something similar going on here with the madwifi modules.

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