Wifi on ASUS eee pc 1000HE (with WEP)

[BobTarragon]

It's good to be back, I have nice memories about DSL and it is especially nice to see some familiar people around  

In my first post let me share my successful activation of wifi with WEP. I've read bits and pieces here on the forum and elsewhere.

In a Terminal type:

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sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid "MY ESSID"
sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode managed key "MY KEY"
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
sudo udhcpc -i wlan0

To do this at every boot, add the above (without sudo) to /opt/bootlocal.sh

Please reply if there is a better way of doing this.

Edit: added how to make this run at every boot.

[alu]

not better, but shorter:

1. cpanel, dhcp server on wlan0;
2. sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid MYESSID key MYKEY

[^thehatsrule^]

iirc, if you use the gui, i.e. from cpanel, a script will be generated and saved as something like /opt/my*.sh

[BobTarragon]

iirc, if you use the gui, i.e. from cpanel, a script will be generated and saved as something like /opt/my*.sh

So I use Netcardconfig in Control Panel (called Panel in the bar) and set interface to wlan0,  set Use DHCP Broadcast to yes and then click Apply. This generates /opt/wlan0.sh which contains:

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#!/bin/sh
pkill udhcpc
udhcpc -H box -b -i wlan0
I don't think this will work... or did you mean that this file can then be modified by adding all else needed, and then /opt/wlan0.sh added to /opt/.filetool.lst ?

[^thehatsrule^]

Yes, something like that.  The user spillz recently added a "setting up wifi" wiki article which may be of interest.

[mcnalu]

Here's what I've got in bootlocal.sh on my 1000H eee pc.

Notes:
1. No need for sudo
2. The SSID is set twice due to a bug in the driver (though this may be fixed)
3. driver is in tc2.x in wireless-2.6.29.1-tinycore.tcem, but compiling from source in tc1.x wasn't hard.

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#!/bin/sh
# put other system startup commands here

ifconfig ra0 up

iwpriv ra0 set NetworkType=Infra
iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=TKIP
iwpriv ra0 set SSID=MYSSID
iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK=MYVERYLONGHEX #use wpa_passphrase to generate
iwpriv ra0 set SSID=MYSSID

udhcpc -b -i ra0