Can't get netcfg2 to work

Question

hey guys, I can't get netcfg2 to work on my machine... really annoying upgrade check this:
[network.d]% diff examples/wpa.example home
1,2c1,2
< CONNECTION="wireless"
< INTERFACE=wlan0
> CONNECTION="home"
> INTERFACE=eth1
5,6c5,6
< ESSID="mynetwork"
< KEY="SomePasskey"
> ESSID="Lebowski"
> KEY="foobar"
[network.d]% sudo netcfg2 home
> home is not a valid connection, check spelling or look at examples
Any ideas? Also, why do I have to specify CONNECTION="foo"? the filename is enough to get the name, no?
chris
Last edited by delmonico (2008-03-28 17:54:41)

Answer 1

I can't get work netcfg2...
if I run
iwconfig wlan0 essid SpeedTouch5F3851 enc open s:LesPiTTareL
it works great, I can connect to my wireless network but...
if I configure my /etc/network.d/celadina in this way:
CONNECTION="wireless"
DESCRIPTION="Connessione wireless casa Bergamo"
INTERFACE=wlan0
ESSID=SpeedTouch5F3851
KEY=LesPiTTareL
SECURITY=wep
IP="static"
IFOPTS="192.168.1.70 netmask 255.255.255.0"
GATEWAY=192.168.1.254
and running
netcfg2 celadina
I get this error message
:: celadina up - Could not set wireless configuration [FAIL]
[root@Arials skioppetto]# "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
I think the error is in SECURITY but I can0t find a solution... I've tried also with IWOPTS and if I don't
define SECURITY it doesn't give any errors but it can't connect becouse key remains off
I use rt61 wireless module; when I connect trough the first way I don't get any wep modules loaded even if it works...
I think the problem could be the kernel module.
What do you think about?