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On Friday 06 June 2008, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: |
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> On Friday 06 June 2008 12:15:11 Mick wrote: |
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> > Within the next few seconds I get an IP via dhcpcd and I can immediately |
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> > connect to the Internet, but very unreliably. Within a few seconds it |
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> > seems that the link goes down, i.e. I can no longer ping Internet |
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> > addresses, or the AP, despite iwconfig showing that all is fine |
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> > connection wise: |
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> What driver are you using? This sounds a lot like what rt2500usb (part of |
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> the rt2x00 project) does, when it associates with an AP at all |
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Yep. I did manage to get it working with wpa_supplicant (or so I |
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thought . . . ) |
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# lsmod | grep rt2 |
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rt2500usb 21728 0 |
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rt2x00usb 8576 1 rt2500usb |
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rt2x00lib 14944 2 rt2500usb,rt2x00usb |
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Am I on a hiding to nothing? I thought that if it made it into the kernel it |
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would be alright to use. When I was downloading the rt2x00 from cvs it was a |
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bit of a hit and miss affair. |
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> BTW, did you really send your wep keys to the world? :) You may want to |
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> change them... |
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Nah, not important. I'm in the middle of nowhere to be honest visiting a |
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friend. Also, WEP encryption is rather trivial to crack, especially so with |
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a 40bit key. :p |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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