> >Hello, I'm having trouble connecting to APs other than the one at my > >home. I use wpa_supplicant and the madwifi-driver (ath0). What can I > >do to debug this? Right now all I see is a timeout. Please let me > >know if you might be able to help. > > > > > > Hi Grant, > > I will try to get wpa_suppliicant running here at my hotel tonight, and > let you know if I learn anything useful. I'm in France, so that would > be during the day Friday your time. That is if I have time before > drinking or brain cells left afterwards!! > > In the mean time, you could try bypassing wpa_supplicant and configure > the network manually with iwconfig. Something like 'iwconfig ath0 essid > "blahblah"' followed by "dhcpcd -i eth0" should get the interface > configured and running. > > If it is just that you cannot get a DHCP address, you might try emerging > one or both of net-misc/pump and net-misc/dhcp. This will give you two > alternate DHCP clients (pump and dhclient) that may have better luck > getting you an address. I've seen pump work in some hotels where dhcpcd > didn't, although not recently. I'm currently using dhclient. > > If that doesn't help, you can try running 'tcpdump -i ath0 -n' (or > ethereal) while attempting to connect and see if that shows you anything > interesting. > > HTH. > > -Richard
Thanks a lot Richard. I'm going to try all of that right away. What does it mean when it says it is connected to address: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF Also, should passwords not be submitted in a browser over an unencrypted wireless network? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
