Comment 30 for bug 92742

On Wednesday 22 August 2007 16:34:00 kwan wrote:
> I have this problem on an Asus WL-130G PCI card. Using Feisty 7.04
> generic Ubuntu all networks showing 0/100 quality. Need to get it
> working with WPA TPK.
>
> I'm new to Linux, and I'd like to use the fix suggested but I have no
> idea what/how to deal with setting security mode to 'restricted' and key
> to off". I tried the commands shown but no change. Can anyone help me
> here please - I'm getting desperate. Couldn't even get NDISwrapper to
> work for some reason. If this is a Network Manager issue, how do
> I/should I turn it off?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Kwan,

Is the WL-130G based on RT2500 chipset.

My Ubuntu 7.04 setup uses a fixed IP and TKIP.

If so:

Install the package wireless-tools
sudo apt-get install wireless-tools

I added the lines below to /etc/network/interfaces

auto ra0
iface ra0 inet static
address 192.168.1.11
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1

pre-up ifconfig ra0 up
pre-up iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
pre-up iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=TKIP
pre-up iwconfig ra0 essid TI-AR7WRD
pre-up iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK="PASSWORD"

Change password and IP address as desired - I have a fixed ip address
of 192.168.1.11 and gateway of 192.168.1.1

Note: I removed anything to do with wlan0 in my setup.

You must get your networking setup to use ra0 as the network interface,
disable others like eth0 etc.

Please backup your /etc/network/interfaces file before changing it.

Cheers
Shaun

PS: I have recently upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10 and wireless networking works
much better than 7.04. This is good news for the future release of 7.10