On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:49:52 +0100 Timothy Murphy <gayleard(a)eircom.net>
wrote:
Jim wrote:
> Module rt2800pci is loading and I can read MAC# of wireless card
As a matter of interest,
what command do you give to see the MAC address?
Assuming this was with iwconfig,
I would have thought it showed you were almost there,
as someone else suggested.
Maybe you have to give direct "ip route" or "route" commands
to specify the routing setup?
I prefer the output from the old "route" command,
which seems to me to be more easily understood.
Maybe commands like
route delete default
route add default gw 192.168.1.33
?
In addition, what security protocol are you using? If the access point
is set up for WPA, you need to configure and run the wpa_supplicant
service, which is supposed to do the appropriate key negotiation with
the access point, before the dhcp server gives you info about your IP,
gateway etc.
NetworkManager uses the wpa_supplicant internally and transparently.
The old network service scripts do not. So if you are not using NM, then
you need to configure it manually and enable it via systemctl, so that
it runs as a daemon and steps in when necessary.
man wpa_supplicant
man wpa_supplicant.conf
man wpa_cli
HTH, :-)
Marko