On Wed 22 Jun 2011 at 22:35:47 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm trying to set up wireless on a Thinkpad T41. I'm using the ath5K > module and this brings up wlan0 as expected. I fiddled all day with > /etc/network/interfaces with no luck. I then tried wicd and this does > show my router, but it won't connect. Are there any tweaks that may make > it connect?
If you want to continue to fiddle with /e/n/i some more this is the bare minimum to associate with the AP and get an address. allow-hotplug ath0 iface ath0 inet dhcp wpa-ssid "unhidden" wpa-psk "double quotes if ascii/none if hex" But remove wicd first, unless you believe it will not interfere with ifupdown. You shouldn't need the last line. > The router does not have encryption but broadcast of its essid is > disabled. This does not prevent wicd from seeing it. Why complicate things? Broadcast and be damned. Or, we hope, connected. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110623001538.GB19572@desktop