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From: Andy Davison on 20 Jun 2008 04:57 I have an eeePC 701. When I bought it I went to the nearest Wetherspoon pub and tried out the wireless. It worked straight out of the box with the free WiFi via the Cloud. It worked with my WPA encrypted wireless at home but then wouldn't work in the pub. I installed the latest madwifi drivers plus the wpa_supplicant from the etch repository and it worked on an unsecured wireless router at a friend's place plus the Cloud log-in page came up at Bristol Parkway railway station but back in London it wouldn't work at the Metropolitan Bar (Wetherspoon) although it can see the various WiFi points in the area. I put Mandriva on it. The wireless works flawlessly at home with WPA encryption but won't connect in Wetherspoon pubs despite the connected icon showing in the Mandriva Control Center. If I open a terminal and type ifconfig as root the ath0 and wifi0 both show as UP and there are figures in the rx packets and tx packets which suggest there has been some activity. Any suggestions? While I bought the eeePC mainly to muck about on without worrying about messing up my main set-up it is light enough to shove in my bag and use elsewhere so I would like to be able to use it out and as Wetherspoon provide free WiFi and there are enough of them around I would like to be able to use it there. -- Andy Davison andy [at] ukfsn [dot] org
From: Geoffrey Clements on 20 Jun 2008 04:06 "Andy Davison" <andydvsn(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:g3fnrs$20f8$1(a)energise.enta.net... >I have an eeePC 701. When I bought it I went to the nearest Wetherspoon pub > and tried out the wireless. It worked straight out of the box with the > free > WiFi via the Cloud. It worked with my WPA encrypted wireless at home but > then wouldn't work in the pub. I installed the latest madwifi drivers plus > the wpa_supplicant from the etch repository and it worked on an unsecured > wireless router at a friend's place plus the Cloud log-in page came up at > Bristol Parkway railway station but back in London it wouldn't work at the > Metropolitan Bar (Wetherspoon) although it can see the various WiFi points > in the area. I put Mandriva on it. The wireless works flawlessly at home > with WPA encryption but won't connect in Wetherspoon pubs despite the > connected icon showing in the Mandriva Control Center. If I open a > terminal > and type ifconfig as root the ath0 and wifi0 both show as UP and there are > figures in the rx packets and tx packets which suggest there has been some > activity. Any suggestions? iwconfig (ath0|wifi0) and see if they are associated with an access point. (I don't know why you have two wireless devices, is that something to do with wpa_supplicant?) -- Geoff
From: Andy Davison on 20 Jun 2008 05:26 Geoffrey Clements wrote: > iwconfig (ath0|wifi0) > > and see if they are associated with an access point. > > (I don't know why you have two wireless devices, is that something to do > with wpa_supplicant?) I don't know why it shows two of them. At home if I do iwconfig wifi0 shows as no wireless extensions and ath0 shows with my ESSID correctly. I can't try at a pub for a few days as I'm on dead late shifts at work but I presume typing iwconfig ath0 essid "WiFi Zone - The Cloud" should create an association if one doesn't exist already. If it does show with the correct ESSID is there anything else you could think of which might work? -- Andy Davison andy [at] ukfsn [dot] org
From: Geoffrey Clements on 20 Jun 2008 06:42 "Andy Davison" <andydvsn(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:g3fpjn$23j8$1(a)energise.enta.net... > Geoffrey Clements wrote: > >> iwconfig (ath0|wifi0) >> >> and see if they are associated with an access point. >> >> (I don't know why you have two wireless devices, is that something to do >> with wpa_supplicant?) > > I don't know why it shows two of them. At home if I do iwconfig wifi0 > shows > as no wireless extensions and ath0 shows with my ESSID correctly. I can't > try at a pub for a few days as I'm on dead late shifts at work but I > presume typing iwconfig ath0 essid "WiFi Zone - The Cloud" should create > an > association if one doesn't exist already. If it does show with the correct > ESSID is there anything else you could think of which might work? I'm not really a wifi expert, I know enough to get mine working at home which you can obviously do as well so I'm not sure I can help but hopefully someone else can. AFAIK the things you need to get right are: 1. The ESSID 2. The channel 3. The encryption key 4. The wireless standard in use (not that I expect this to be a problem here) and then you probably need a dhcp client to set up the ip parameters, but I suspect I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. -- Geoff
From: Vince Coen on 20 Jun 2008 09:23
Hello Andy! 20 Jun 08 09:57, Andy Davison wrote to All: AD> I have an eeePC 701. When I bought it I went to the nearest AD> Wetherspoon pub and tried out the wireless. It worked straight out of AD> the box with the free WiFi via the Cloud. It worked with my WPA AD> encrypted wireless at home but then wouldn't work in the pub. I AD> installed the latest madwifi drivers plus the wpa_supplicant from the AD> etch repository and it worked on an unsecured wireless router at a AD> friend's place plus the Cloud log-in page came up at Bristol Parkway AD> railway station but back in London it wouldn't work at AD> the Metropolitan Bar (Wetherspoon) although it can see the various AD> WiFi points in the area. AD> I put Mandriva on it. The wireless works AD> flawlessly at home with WPA encryption but won't connect in AD> Wetherspoon pubs despite the connected icon showing in the Mandriva AD> Control Center. So to confirm what you have done: at home you have security turned on and took the LT to a pub or other free hotspot which does not use a secure connection. Yes? Did you turn security off when you sent to the pub? If not then its trying to do a secure connection when the other side isn't. Vince |