Getting wifi to work

[Matthew Kuiken]

Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> Despite the fact, that I'm not yet able to install Ubuntu on my HD, I'd
>> like to get my wireless card to work.
>>
>> I'm using a "Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)"
>> which uses the madwifi driver. The AP is a Linksys WRT-54GS running
>> OpenWrt firmware. I'm using WEP.
>>
>> According to <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WifiDocs/Driver/Madwifi>, I need
>> to do "sudo iwpriv authmode 2", as I'm using WEP. After I ran that 
>> command,
>> which returned nothing and I thus expect that it succeeded, I started
>> the network admin tool from (System)->(Administration)->(Networking) and
>> selected the ath0 device, which got created automatically during boot.
>> I then selected "settings" and entered my hex WEP key. For the key, I
>> tried it with and without dashes, ie.
>>
>>     3D26-72EE-AFFE-7EE1-5FDD-8A1E-77
>>     3D2672EEAFFE7EE15FDD8A1E77
>>
>> (that's not the actual key...). When I then activated ath0, it took
>> quite some time and in /var/log/daemon.log I could see, that dhclient
>> was trying to get a DHCP response. It didn't get one.
>>
>> Well - what to do next?
>
> I'm still clueless about how to get wifi to work. Meanwhile,
> I also tried what taylormc wrote:
>
>     sudo iwpriv ath0 authmode 2
>
> But this doesn't change anything at all :(
>
> Does anybody else have an idea about how to get wifi to work? Also
> ideas reg. debugging this problem would be greatly appreciated!
>
Have you tried without WEP enabled.  It's not a permanent solution, but 
it says whether the wireless is working at all.

-Matt