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   Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:19:13 +0000   
   From: Derek Turner    
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   Subject: Re: Sorry, wireless again (!)   
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   prawn wrote:   
   > On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:17:58 +0000, Derek Turner wrote:   
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   >> I feel that I am 'so near yet so far' from cracking this so any advice    
   >> gratefully received. wpasupplicant (which I presume = the debian    
   >> wpa_supplicant) is loaded by the way. Tried turning off all security on    
   >> the router and having no passkey in 'Networking' but still no joy.   
   >>   
   >> Forgot to say that Wireless Assistant 'sees' and correctly identifies    
   >> the SSID.   
   >    
   > There will be stuff in the syslogs relating to attempted connections which   
   > can be useful.   
   >    
   > In the meantime, do you want to try this from the command line and   
   > see what the results are?   
   >    
   > (replace xxxx with your device name, natch.)   
   >    
   > sudo iwconfig xxxx essid "The Relevant SSID"   
   > sudo iwconfig xxxx enc "s:your_wep_encrypyion_key"   
   > sudo dhclient xxxx    
   >    
   >    
   >    
   wep? I'm using wap-psk but I'll  try it, thanks   
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