I am new to antiX. Before it I used Debian Lenny on on my Tecra 8000. With Lenny my HAMA USB WLAN stick with RT73 chipset worked very well. Also WPA encryption was no problem.
Now with antiX-M7 Lysistrata the stick works too but I cannot connect with WPA encryption to the router.
In "Admin/Tools -> Mepis Admin -> Network" I have filled in MYSSID and my WPA passphrase with and without quotation marks. I have rebooted the laptop but it won't work.
This is my /etc/network/interfaces:
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#mapping hotplug
#script echo
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE
auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
address 192.168.79.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.79.255
gateway 192.168.79.1
#auto eth1
allow-hotplug eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
address 192.168.79.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.79.255
gateway 192.168.79.1
#auto eth2
allow-hotplug eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp
address 192.168.79.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.79.255
gateway 192.168.79.1
#auto ath0
allow-hotplug ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp
address 192.168.79.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.79.255
gateway 192.168.79.1
#auto wlan0
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
address 192.168.79.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.79.255
gateway 192.168.79.1
#auto ra0
allow-hotplug ra0
iface ra0 inet dhcp
address 192.168.79.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.79.255
gateway 192.168.79.1
#auto rausb0
allow-hotplug rausb0
iface rausb0 inet dhcp
address 192.168.79.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.79.255
gateway 192.168.79.1
#auto wifi0
allow-hotplug wifi0
iface wifi0 inet dhcp
address 192.168.79.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.79.255
gateway 192.168.79.1
# DO NOT EDIT ABOVE THIS LINE
This is the output of iwconfig:
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# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
irda0 no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 RT73 WLAN ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level:-86 dBm Noise level:-115 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
And this says dhclient:
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# dhclient wlan0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:0e:2e:dc:24:e4
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:0e:2e:dc:24:e4
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 1
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
Any further ideas?
BTW: I am glad that I have changed to antiX despite this problem. The other things works fantastic. It is really the perfect Distro for this old piece of hardware. I think I will fix the problem with the WPA encryption sooner or later. But I hope with your help it will be sooner.
Regards,
Christian
