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On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Lavender <448463782@××.com> wrote: |
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> The essid of my dormitory wireless netword is "Rebellion" |
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> and its password is "I'll leave it up to you"(It's OK to tell |
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> you this private information :-) ) . |
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> I typed command below |
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> #iwconfig wlan0 up |
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> #iwconfig wlan0 essid "Rebellion" |
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> Commands above worked normally, then |
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> #iwconfig wlan0 mode master |
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> Our AP mode which iwlist shows is master, |
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> but the command above failed. Error message was |
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> "Invalid argument". |
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> Then I typed |
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> #iwconfig wlan0 mode managed |
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> This worked , then |
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> #iwconfig wlan0 enc "I'll leave it up to you" |
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> This failed with error message "Invalid argument" |
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> I have searched the internet , but I didn't find |
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> useful information . The password is right , it |
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> can work on windows system .So what's wrong |
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> with it? |
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What encryption method is used by the AP? The method you described |
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only kinda works for WEP. If the AP is using WPA or WPA2, you need a |
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WPA supplicant. |
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