Getting wifi to work

[Alexander Skwar]

Matthew Kuiken wrote:
> Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> Matthew Kuiken wrote:

>>> As far as the interface working or not, having it work under Gentoo 
>>> means there isn't a hardware problem, but there still could be 
>>> software problems under Ubuntu.
>>
>> Exactly. And I'm after the software problem that Ubuntu shows. And
>> that's where I'd need help from you Ubuntu guys here.
> Sorry I'm not being much help.  I'll keep trying though.

Sorry, I'm getting a bit disappointed by the fact, that such fundamentals
don't work on my system :( What's so different about my system, that Ubuntu
just seems to be a complete failure? Or what am I doing wrong?

>  From another part of this thread, you were talking about entering your 
> WEP key.  I do remember that my key would not work unless it was entered 
> in one long string, without dashes, with the key line set to hex, and 
> any alpha characters in upper case.

So, like the 2nd format I mentioned in my OP? Like so? 3D2672EEAFFE7EE15FDD8A1E77

> I'm going to guess that the section should look like this: (I think 
> network-admin should be creating this section when you use it, but I'm 
> not certain.)
> 
> auto ath0
> iface ath0 inet dhcp
>     wireless-essid <your-essid>
>     wireless-key <your-key>

Will try that - but actually, I doubt that this helps... Dunno, just a
feeling.

Alexander Skwar
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