issue with open Wireless connection

[anantgowerdhan]

Hi,

I installed Dreamlinux 2.2, which is based on Debian, and it was amazingly fast on my laptop, I appreciate Dream team for their hard work.

After installation I was about to setup my WiFi, for that I used ZyDas firmware what I used with other linux distro. Once I placed it in proper directory and plugged my USB adapter it recognized it. Than I opened Dreamlinux Control Center where I had an option to setup the wireless connection. It showed me aLL the available SSID but there were only two options in Encryption Key - ASCII & Hexadesimal but in my case I'm using open Wifi connection there is no Encryption key (collage campus, library). So I wasnt able to connect to Internet...

What entry should I make in etc/network/interface to get connected to unsecured network and Access Point = Roaming

Regards,
Anant

[aliov]

I don't know wish program pop up without letting you to disable the wep key, but you can still connect to the internet from the terminal.

iwconfig (to see the name of the interface let's say eth1)

iwconfig eth1 essid (you ssid) mode managed
iwconfig eth1 key off
dhclient eth1.

Hope this help.

[anantgowerdhan]

I think etc/network/interfaces stores this value when its in Secured mode

iface eth0 inet dhcp
             wireless-essid myessid
             wireless-key 123456789e

What changes should I make to make it connect to unsecured network, how to specify the wireless-key is NONE....so that it can connect to Wifi as soon as I start laptop.

Regards

[rudie_rage]

as far as I know, if your doing it from the terminal it assumes its an open network unless you specify the wep key.

when I'm connecting to a network i use iwlist <device to listen on, in my case ath0> to find all available networks,

then i use iwconfig ath0 essid='network name'

then finally i run dhcpcd ath0 to obtain an ip address. if there is a dhcp client already running, i killall dhcpcd, then dhcpcd aht0 again to refresh it.

This is the method I use to connect, its kind of hit and miss sometimes, but with under 5 minutes of tinkering I always seem to get it right.

The fancy GUI programs are sometimes more convenient,but I find knowing how to use the CLI wireless tools yourself to be invalueable when something goes wrong.