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Gest

Wifi help

Post by Gest »

I'm having trouble setting up the wifi. I've tried both MINI beta2 and beta3, and both refuse to connect with the following settings.

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# System's Network Configuration

PHY_TYPE="auto"            # Network physical type (auto|ethernet|wifi)
HOST=""                    # GeeXboX IP ("" for DHCP)
SUBNET=""                  # GeeXboX Subnet mask ("" for DHCP)
GATEWAY=""                 # Gateway IP ("" for DHCP or no internet connection)
DNS_SERVER=""              # DNS Server IP ("" for DHCP or none)
DHCP_TIMEOUT="0"           # DHCP timeout seconds (set >0 for slow servers)
ETH=""                     # set interface in case it's not eth0

# Wifi settings

WIFI_MODE="managed"        # Wifi working mode (managed|ad-hoc)
WIFI_CHANNEL="5"            # Wifi channel
WIFI_ENC="WEP"             # Wifi Encryption method (WEP|WPA|none)
WIFI_KEY="10 digit hex key here"                # Wifi WEP/WPA key (in ASCII mode, not hex.)
WIFI_ESSID="HerpDerp"           # Wifi SSID
WPA_DRV="wext"             # WPA driver (wext|atmel)
WPA_SCAN_SSID="1"          # Request SSID-specific scanning; for APs that 
                           # reject broadcast SSID (0|1)
WPA_AP_SCAN="2"            # Driver AP scanning method (0|1|2)
WPA_CIPHER="CCMP TKIP"     # WPA CIPHER to use (CCMP|TKIP|none)

# Services to be started at boot time

TELNET_SERVER="no"
FTP_SERVER="no"
HTTP_SERVER="no"
SAMBA_SERVER="no"

# Use UPnP MediaServer devices auto-discovery

UPNP="yes"

# Network Stream

ICECAST="no"
SHOUTCAST="no"
# WARNING: SHOUTcast TV may contain streams with adult content!
SHOUTCASTTV="no"
WHITELIST=""
BLACKLIST="adult porn xxx ESS SWCTV SWPTV Subscription"
TIMEOUT=10
TRIES=10

# Generic shares settings
# Set to 0 to disable network rescan, or else time (minutes) between scans.
NET_RESCAN_DELAY=3

# Samba settings

# Note that configured Samba shares cannot contain spaces in their names.
SMB_USER="SHARE"           # User Login ("" for none)
SMB_PWD=""                 # User Password ("" for none)

# Static Samba shares can be defined as shown in the commented examples below, 
# where <%>,<@>,<&>,<#> field separators must be present as shown (Note that 
# the password cannot contain  these special delimiters):

#STATIC_SMB="username<%>password<@>ip<&>myservername<#>share1<#>share2<#>share3"
#STATIC_SMB="<%><@>ip<&>myservername<#>share1"
When I set PHY_TYPE to wifi instead of auto, the Wii IP gets set to 192.168.0.54, however it doesn't show up on my router and pinging the address gives nothing.

I tried manually inputing the IP Addresses, but the Wii still didn't connect. Any idea what's wrong?
farter
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Re: Wifi help

Post by farter »

It's best to start with no encryption and if everything works, add encryption later.

I haven't used wifi in a while, but you may want to check the "# Wifi WEP/WPA key (in ASCII mode, not hex.)" part.
Fartersoft minus the soft part.
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