How, in the name of all things holy, do you configure a wireless device with KnoppMyth?! Nothing works. iwconfig recognizes it and detects the network but I have to enter an encryption key.

iwconfig wlan0 key s:[key] doesn't work

i've tried downloading two different gui's for gnome but they all need GTK+ 2.0 and I don't even know what GTK I'm running.

I tried editting the /etc/network/interfaces file but I don't know how to activiate the settings I placed in there, nor if the settings are even correct.

Any help would be greatly greatly greatly appreciated.

you don't have to activate the changes to /etc/network/interfaces, and this is the correct way to handle wireless. It has been covered numerous times on the forum. and of course you will have to make sure that you have the proper driver installed before the /etc/network/interfaces stuff works, which you probably do if iwconfig works.

basic layout is



of course if you are using something other than wlan0 for instance ath0 then substitute it for wlan0.

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I did lookup that very code on the forum and it didn't work. However, I was trying to use a passphrase, not the 26 hexidemicals. Is this my problem?

root@chronos:~# iwconfig wlan0 essid havemercyonme
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.


This is the constant error message I get when I try to change my wireless settings. Changing them in interfaces as suggested above prompts this very same error message during the boot process.

Any ideas? I just want to be able to change my wireless settings.

that should work. what kind of card are you using and what driver? It may be a problem with the driver. and yes unfortunately you have to use the 26 digit key for wep. supposedly some of the cards support wpa, but I haven't looked into that yet.

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Sorry, I went out of town for vacation on Friday and just got back this morning. I'm using a Linksys WUSB11 v3 with the wlan-ng drivers. The error message is so bizzare, is it just the device? And, does anyone have a suggested wireless USB device I should use?

I have a DLink router. I like to use the MAC Address filtering, If you have that available on your router I would suggest trying that rather than messing with wep or wpa.

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