Need help with ativa (atheros) awgna54 pcmia card - Solved!

ron · posted: 2011-01-02 14:32

I'm currently typing this from Puppy. I've tried all of the available wireless utilities but I can't seem to connect to my wireless through antiX 8.5.

lspci lists it as Atheros Communication Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)

Is there a module I need to load or am I missing something?

Ok, I figured it out. It's working great!

oldhoghead · posted: 2011-01-02 15:14

ron,

would you post the output of as root in terminal

iwconfig

cheers,
ohh

ron · posted: 2011-01-02 15:15

I got it working. It was user error.

anticapitalista · posted: 2011-01-02 15:23

Glad to hear you got it working.

ron · posted: 2011-01-03 12:10

I got this working using Wireless (rutilt) and entering my numbers. It worked great but didn't retain the settings. How do I set this to remember everything?

anticapitalista · posted: 2011-01-03 12:31

I don't use rutilt, cut was wondering if ceni connects and remembers your settings.

ron · posted: 2011-01-03 12:48

I wasn't successful at getting ceni to work

ron · posted: 2011-01-03 14:09

OK, I tried again. Ceni and wicd both can see my network but I can't seem to connect to it. Rutilt sees it and connects to it no problem but it will not save settings. I'm on a WEP network if this is causing the problem

oldhoghead · posted: 2011-01-03 16:23

ron,

Using wep is a waste of time, wep can be cracked in less than 5 minutes! So, either use wpa2 or use nothing. Not trying to be harsh, but that is the reality.
If you have a newer router, then it is almost certainly a NAT router that provides excellent stealth defense against outside penetration ootb. just be sure to not use the default username and password that came with the router. Linux is inherently more secure than MS products, I have been running linux for the past four years, and have never encountered any intrusions on any of my systems. If you use a laptop, then you do need a firewall, I now use, ufw with gufw as the gui front end. Basically the firewalls are just a front end to iptables, which is installed in linux, but not always configured. antiX comes with firehol installed, but not configured.
Try to connect with ceni or wicd without using wep, first I would try with wicd, if it does not connect, go to here and have a read:

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title=Howto_articles#Wicd"
linktext was:"http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title= ... icles#Wicd"
====================================

and the one on ceni is just below the aforementioned link.

cheers,
ohh