Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 680 from 2009/10/21
From: Boston, USA
Wireless
We must first make certain you have a Atheros chip as wireless. Open PCITool in Tools directory. Down left hand side are a series of numbers 0.00.0 etc. Click on some at the bottom and hopefully one of them will say Atheros AR5??? or AR242?.
or a RTL8187B which we use Prefs/Trident to check
There are many similarities with the above Wired set up so please read the above section as well
open Network/Prefs
In IPv4 Configuration tab - click Add - enter eth0 / active tick / #?.device / Unit 0 / IP Mode = manual (important if default DHCP does not work)
Posted from ignorance but are these the text files?
Make sure that any extra network names (e.g. eth1 or ath0) should be deleted and just change the driver on eth0 to the device name like atheros5000.device or realtek8180.device. Having two names eth0 and eth1 with the same subnet will cause problems.
Go to Wireless tab and click on "Add" button.
Insert network name (eth0), select right "encyption" that is most likely "WPA".
Key Type set as "Passphrase". Type in your password for your router (aka access key).
Unselect (no tick) "hidden" if it is selected, then apply.
Finally, Save and reboot.
For the best chance of success, set networking to start at boot, and then reboot with the USB adapter plugged in.
To list available networks in the shell
wirelessmanager atheros5000.device verbose
wirelessmanager realtek8180.device verbose
If your router doesn't broadcast its SSID, you need to add this option to the network block of the wpa_supplicant.conf on your aros machine and make changes after # Example blocks:
scan_ssid=1
Here's a full description of all the config file options.
ap_scan=1
network={
ssid="YOURESSID"
scan_ssid=1
proto=RSN
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP
group=CCMP
psk=YOURPASSWORD
}
filter_ssids=1
ap_scan=2
network={
ssid="REMOVED"
scan_ssid=1
bssid=REMOVED
priority=100
mode=0
proto=RSN
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
auth_alg=OPEN
pairwise=CCMP
group=CCMP
psk=REMOVED
}
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