FDOM and WiFi

Michael Shiloh michael at openmoko.org
Sat Oct 4 03:02:07 CEST 2008


After you set the ESSID you need to request an IP address via dhcp:

udhcpc eth0

Which is the last line in this command sequence:

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA02_WLAN#Manual_attempt

Vince M. Clark wrote:
>   Network is open and I can see it. I tried manually configuring and it 
> sets the essid but doesn't get an IP address. Is there something else I 
> need to do to enable dhcp?
> 
> root at om-gta02:~# iwconfig eth0
> eth0      AR6000 802.11g  ESSID:"linksys" 
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 
> 00:0F:66:D2:BB:41  
>           Bit Rate=1 Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3 
>           Retry:on  
>           Encryption key:off
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality:179/94  Signal level:-172 dBm  Noise level:-96 dBm
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:8
> 
> root at om-gta02:~# ifconfig eth0
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:12:CF:8E:E7:AA 
>           inet6 addr: fe80::212:cfff:fe8e:e7aa/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:109829 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:14838 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:44459303 (42.3 MiB)  TX bytes:146338 (142.9 KiB)
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Shiloh" <michael at openmoko.org>
> To: "List for Openmoko community discussion" <community at lists.openmoko.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 3, 2008 1:44:57 PM (GMT-0700) America/Denver
> Subject: Re: FDOM and WiFi
> 
> At this point you can try manually configuring the wireless card:
> 
> iwconfig eth0 essid linksys
> 
> Does your network have an encryption key? How many letters? I think
> there is a bug that one letter keys don't work.
> 
> If your network has an encryption key, I think another bug requires that
> you set the key before the ID thus:
> 
> iwconfig eth0 key 123456789 essid linksys
> 
> Let me know if this works and we'll update the wiki accordingly
> 
> Michael
> 
> Vince M. Clark wrote:
>  >   Here is the output. I can see the access point but it is not connected
>  > even though in Mofi the circle is orange next to the access point.
>  >
>  > root at om-gta02:~# iwconfig eth0
>  > eth0      AR6000 802.11g  ESSID:""
>  >           Mode:Managed  Bit Rate:1 Mb/s   Tx-Power=0 dBm   
> Sensitivity=0/3
>  >           Retry:on  
>  >           Encryption key:off
>  >           Power Management:off
>  >           Link Quality:0/94  Signal level:-95 dBm  Noise level:-96 dBm
>  >           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>  >           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>  >
>  >
>  > root at om-gta02:~# iwlist eth0 scan
>  > eth0      Scan completed :
>  >           Cell 01 - Address: 00:0F:66:D2:BB:41
>  >                     ESSID:"linksys"
>  >                     Mode:Master
>  >                     Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
>  >                     Quality=15/94  Signal level=-80 dBm  Noise 
> level=-95 dBm
>  >                     Encryption key:off
>  >                     Extra:bcn_int=100
>  >




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