WIFI Networking with MINI ver

[RandomPlayer2]

I cannot get the wifi networking to function at all.
I am using the 0.1Beta2 MINI version of Geexbox.

I've changed the settings in the /etc/network file as listed here:

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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="10"            # Wifi channel
WIFI_ENC="WEP"             # Wifi Encryption method (WEP|WPA|none)
WIFI_KEY="MYWEPKEY"                # Wifi WEP/WPA key (in ASCII mode, not hex.)
WIFI_ESSID="MYSSID"           # 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)

It does not connect to the wireless router.

Am I missing something?
When I run in debug mode, it there a command I can run to check my network settings?

Thank you.

[farter]

Eh, the comments are misleading, they are only meant for WPA key.

For WEP, you have to use the 10 or 26 hex digit 'key' specified in your AP's configuration GUI as WIFI_KEY, NOT the passphrase used to generate the hex key.


For debugging wifi connection, there are ifconfig, iwconfig, and iwlist. Use --help to see options.

[RandomPlayer2]

I got it working. I changed the AP to use WPA.
The comments seemed more logical that way.

I'm surprised at the speed of the wireless networking. According to the notes, it should be dreadfully slow.
But I am able to stream compressed video just fine. No stuttering. It's dropping some frames, throughout, but overall, not bad.

Thank you for your work on this.