Problem with dhcpcd on encrypted wifi connection (non-enc is fine)

[Marinus]

Hi,

I'm writing this through a laptop with a Netgear/Atheros 5212 so I'm pretty happy as is.
However, we just got WEP on our network and I have been unable to obtain
a IP address through our router.

The card will connect, the key is correctly processed and iwconfig gives me the AP data and a descent reception.
** BUT dhcpcd stalls and dhcpcd -t 10 -d ath0 results
only in the MAC address, no IP address and I'm unable to ping or go online. **

iwconfig:

ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"xxxxx"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Bit Rate:36Mb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:19/94 Signal level:-76 dBm Noise level:-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:685 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:1 Invalid misc:1 Missed beacon:0

ifconfig:

ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:244 errors:209 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:209
TX packets:0 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:200
RX bytes:16592 (16.2 Kb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Memory:cfaa1000-cfab1000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

XP machine connects fine without any problem or tweaks.

Am I omitting something?


Thanks for any help,

Marinus.

[spencerf]

are you typing in the command iwconfig key 983483893 (or whatever your key is)?

[Marinus]

Hi spencerf,

no I've made a couple of logon scripts for various WiFi locations.
The scripts for the encrypted router includes

iwconfig ath0 key restricted s:XXXXXXXXXX

I'm not on my own computer right now, so I can't post the whole script but it's the same as all other working ones except for this addition.

Should I copy/paste it somehow?

Thanks,

Marinus.

[spencerf]

Yes pasting your script would help, someone might see something in their that is a mistake.

Sorry I couldn't be more help.